The Network Security Bible is organized into five sections: Security Principles and Practices, Operating Systems and Applications, Network Security, Communications and the Security Threat and Response. The flow of the material is intended to provide the reader with a foundation of information system security processes and network security fundamentals. The book also addresses specifics of UNIX, Windows, Web, email, DNS, communications and applications security. The material concludes with descriptions of information security threats, means to respond to those threats and the latest methodologies for assessing and testing a network’s security posture, including a Hacking Exposed, very useful “secrets” to cost-effective and time-efficient network security operation.
