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Title: Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet by Stefan Norberg ISBN: 1-56592-768-0 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great server security info here for smaller environments
Comment: I have been waiting for a book like this for quite a while. For anyone interested in securing W2k Internet servers this book has some excellent advice. The networking security tips are particularly useful and relevant. I was disappointed that there was not more IIS specific security information, given that most W2K servers on the Internet are running IIS. Also, as the author himself points out, much of the changes he is proposing to harden servers are not practical in an enterprise-sized environment. By hardening servers as he describes you loose much of the scalable administration NT and W2K where built around. I would not want to implement the majority of these changes on a production environment of more than 30 or so servers for that reason. I also would not put pcanywhere on any production server as a way to get around just having disabled the functionality of the native remote administration tools. Having said all that, buy this book if you are responsible for securing your Microsoft servers. There is enough great information here to make it well worth it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty good summation of security practices
Comment: The author certainly understands windows security from the administrator's point of view. He isn't going to launch into the deficiencies of Lanman in great detail, but he will tell you how to allow only NTLMv2 instead, or even better...uninstall all of the MS deadly ports altogether (what are they doing on a mail server anyway???)
To be honest I'm primarily a Unix person (FreeBSD when possible) so I feel really constricted in the windows environment and thus don't know as much as I should about securing the boxes. This book allows me to jump into the windows world (since I obviously need at least one windows box around for work) and make intelligent choices regarding configuration.
The small number of pages is actually a good thing since the author skips all of the general security tips and knowledge that you can get in 1,000 other books nowadays, getting right to the meat of it: what to click and type to secure the box. This also has the pleasant side-affect of reducing the cost from the normal range of 50-60 to around 20, which pretty much means that buying this book is a no-brainer.
In summary, a Unix geek can get away with this book since it's so direct and easy to follow. It requires some previous security knowledge but not a boatload.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book, hope they update it soon.
Comment: This book was probably just right when it was released, but it's time to update it for 2000/XP and drop NT entirely. I only looked at the 2000 stuff, since those are the kind I support, but the info was very helpful, and even though we're several service packs down the road, it's still accurate. I didn't read the NT information (though it's largely the same, since they have the same roots) for accuracy as much, but it's still worth the price for the 2000 answers.
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Title: Building Internet Firewalls (2nd Edition) by Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Simon Cooper, D. Brent Chapman ISBN: 1565928717 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Windows 2000 (Hacking Exposed) by Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure ISBN: 0072192623 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 29 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Windows 2000 Security by Roberta Bragg ISBN: 0735709912 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Windows 2000 Security Handbook by Philip Cox, Tom Sheldon ISBN: 0072124334 Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 27 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit by Ben Smith, Eliot Lewis, Brian Komar, Microsoft Security Team, Elliot Lewis, Members of the Microsoft Security Team ISBN: 0735618682 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 12 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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