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As a diverse collection of information--much of it at a fairly advanced level--White-Hat Security Arsenal: Tackling the Threats is a valuable primer on matters of computer and network security. The author doesn't offer specific instructions on how to harden your systems against attack, and doesn't go far in explaining how to build security into software you write. But he does offer good overviews of how particular manifestations of malice--such as Babylonia (a specific virus) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) systems (a broad class of attack)--work. Similarly, he details how security protocols and mechanisms--packet filters and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol are two examples--go about their tasks. In brief, the book breaks l... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Get full details on major mobile/wireless clients and operating systems--including Windows CE, Palm OS, UNIX, and Windows. You'll learn how to design and implement a solid security system to protect your wireless network and keep hackers out. Endorsed by RSA Security -- the most trusted name in e-security -- this is your one-stop guide to wireless security.
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Fraase's book is a real grab bag. It has some good information, some excellent writing, some gaps, some errors, some promises and a lot of graphics (of which the author seems inordinately fond). It isn't so much Windows specific as (NetManage's) Chameleon specific. Overall, the discussion of Internet applications and use covers the major topics, and gives the new user a reasonable understanding of the basic tools. The chapter on "Getting Connected" proposes a very broadly based and helpfully divided overview of the various options. It starts with talk of the university, government, and corporate options, of which many potential users remain unaware. The difference between dedicated dial-up IP and dial-up terminal is raised, althoug... Rest of this review on the detail page
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When I was trying to describe this book, a colleague noted that it sounded like (job) security by distraction. The authors have managed to string together a number of points about different aspects of technology, many related to wireless communications and security, but, overall, not providing the reader with much that is relevant to the central topic. Chapter one, entitled "Why is Wireless Different," gives all the appearance of a political polemic. It sounds good, but analysis reveals very little actual meaning in the text. Contiguous statements actually have no relationship to each other. Instead of the promised material about wireless information warfare, chapter two presents a random collection of tidbits from communications and ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Business leaders, investors, analysts, and others who need to get a handle on the state of the art in terrestrial wireless data technology will be well served by Frank Coyle's Wireless Web: A Manager's Guide. The title is accurate--this is no manual for turbo-nerds or standards committee members--and Coyle serves his target market well. He's perhaps a little bit guilty of not reporting the shortcomings of technologies and their implementations, but he more than makes up for his slight boosterism (at one point, he mentions, apparently straight-facedly, washing machines that communicate with chips in clothes to determine if the clothes are light or dark) with lucid, reasoned prose. With that prose, he explains how technologies differ, how the... Rest of this review on the detail page
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