The Stephen Northcutt book is excellent, make sure it is the 2nd Edition.
Well worth the money. I have found any book from O'Reilly is usually a good
bet.

If you are looking for more than the basics, then I would stay away from
books that were published before 1999. A lot has changed since then, but
the basics haven't so some of them are still relevant.

FWIW, you can hit a site like Amazon and search for the ISBN and read
reviews from people that bought the books. You can get some good info and
sometimes other recommendations.

Jason Lewis
http://www.packetnexus.com
http://www.packetnexus.com/kb/greyarts/
It's not secure "Because they told me it was secure". The people at the
other end of the link know less about security than you do. And that's
scary.

-----Original Message-----
From: C F [mailto:cyberfreak@netmadeira.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 5:37 AM
To: CISSPSTUDY
Cc: Focus-IDS; SECURITY-BASICS
Subject: Books

Hello list,
As new to the security world I looked arround to find good books about
security and I ended with a list that I will paste for you. My question is
if this list books I ended with are good value for my money? Or should I buy
others? Another relevant issue is that its quite expensive to buy these
books and should I start with these? If you know where I can find good free
stuff about security issues where i can learn.
Tkz CF

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Fundamentals of Computer Security Technology
Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0131089293
by Edward G. Amoroso
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Security in Computing
Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0133374866
by Charles P. Pfleeger
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Computer Security
John Wiley & Son Ltd; ISBN: 0471978442
by Dieter Gollmann
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Practical UNIX & Internet Security, 2nd Edition
O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565921488
by Simson Garfinkel & Gene Spafford
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Building Internet Firewalls (2nd Edition)
O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565928717
by Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Simon Cooper, D. Brent Chapman
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Firewalls and Internet Security
Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 0201633574
by William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin
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Hacking Exposed, 2nd Edition
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; ISBN: 0072127481
by Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure, George Kurtz
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Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts' Handbook The 2nd Edition
New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 0735708682
by Stephen Northcutt 2nd Edition
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Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century.
Garfinkel, S. (2000).
O'Reilly (Sebastopol, CA).
ISBN 1-56592-653-6. vii + 312. Index.
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Cyberspace and the Law: Your Rights and Duties in the On-Line World.
Cavazos, E. & G. Morin (1996).
MIT Press (Cambridge, MA).
ISBN 0-262-53123-2. 220 pp. Index

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