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Title	The SSCP Prep Guide: Mastering the Seven Key Areas of System Security
Author(s)	Debra S. Isaac, Michael J. Isaac
ISBN	0471273511
Language	English
Published	April 2003
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Chapter one is a supposed overview of security, although it is rather vague and iconoclastic. Access control, in chapter two, provides an unstructured list of related terms. At the end of the chapter we get the expected list of sample questions, but these are either simplistic, idiosyncratic, or both. Chapter three, ostensibly about administration, is a completely mixed bag of security management, security architecture, operations security, and networking topics. The information on auditing given in chapter four concentrates primarily on networking, has way too many screenshots of Windows tools, and far too little content on forensics. A surprisingly good section on risk, advice on incident response that starts well but ends abruptly, and a short but standard piece on business continuity planning is in chapter five. Cryptography, in chapter six, has a list of terms, poor explanations of the important concepts, and an unimportant overview of the history of cryptography, padded out with annoyingly fuzzy photographs. Most of chapter seven is a list of communications terms. There is a disproportionate emphasis on penetration testing, and a very odd reiteration of material on the system development life cycle. (Possibly the authors got confused with the *other* SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control?) The material on malware, in chapter eight, has been very carelessly put together. There are two separate descriptions of macro viruses almost adjacent to each other, and a level three header section on trojan horses immediately followed by a level four header on trojan horses, which starts out saying "Trojan horses are another threat ..." There is a recommendation to use "false data directories" to trap polymorphic viruses. (No mention is made of how this technobabble might work.) The authors should take note that a multipartite virus is *not* the same thing as a companion virus, and that worms *do* replicate. There is very little useful material in this book. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2003
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* SSCP (System Security Certified Practitioner) is the companion test to CISSP, appealing to the practitioners who implement the security policies that the CISSP-certified professionals create * Organized exactly like the bestselling The CISSP Prep Guide (0-471-41356-9) by Ronald L. Krutz and Russell Dean Vines, who serve as consulting editors for this book * This study guide greatly enhances the reader's understanding of how to implement security policies, standards, and procedures in order to breeze through the SSCP security certification test * CD-ROM contains a complete interactive self-test using all the questions and answers from the book, powered by the Boson test engine