Book details of 'Have You Locked the Castle Gate?: Home and Small Business Computer Security'

Title	Have You Locked the Castle Gate?: Home and Small Business Computer Security
Author(s)	Brian Shea
ISBN	020171955X
Language	English
Published	April 2002
Publisher	Addison-Wesley Pub Co

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Chapter one is entitled "Assessing Risk." It deals with the basic concepts, but in a somewhat confused manner, and sometimes stresses or sensationalizes minor points. A grab bag of security concepts drifts into Windows specifics in chapter two. The author has said that he will be concentrating on Windows, since it is the most widely used system for home computers, but the material tells only *how* to, for example, set up groups, and not what groups are used for in terms of security. Chapter three is more of the same: more miscellany, and more Windows. The discussion of servers, in chapter four, is almost entirely devoted to Windows, and is weak on security concepts and technologies such as firewalls. There is a set of vague ideas about the Internet in chapter five. Chapter six, on email security, has some good suggestions, but a number of gaps. Web security is a questionable checklist of browser settings, almost entirely for Internet Explorer, in chapter seven. "Defending Against Hackers," in chapter eight, sounds like it should be important, but it is hard to find any point. Chapter nine, on viruses, starts with a surprisingly good set of definitions (recognizably from "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses") but quickly deteriorates into errors (the Internet Worm was *not* an accident), and poor suggestions (it does not make an awful lot of sense to talk about "boot disks" for scanning Windows systems without getting into a lot of detail). I am all in favour of having a relatively simple and straightforward guide to security for home and small business users. But Jeff Crume already did "Inside Internet Security" (see reviews), and did a much better job. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2002
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