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Re: Learning Network Security Basics
From: Adam Jones <ajones1 () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:39:13 -0800
A lot of people have suggested learning about security now instead of waiting until you finish some network courses. I think this is a good recommendation as it will force you to learn networking well just to be able to understand some of the concepts, which gives the double bonus of making you study for your current classes also. Just understand that you may not be able to understand everything on the first pass. Someone earlier suggested the sans reading room. There is a ton of information in there, and a lot of the older stuff is either still entirely valid or the concepts from it can still apply. Again reailize that without a decent background in the systems involved in a given paper (networking, operating systems, programming, etc) you may have a hard time with it. I would also suggest avoiding the "hacking exposed" series of books for quite a while. Not that they are necessarily bad books, but the information they cover is filled with references to different tools you can use. I think it is better to learn the concepts involved then review the available tools to help understand what is going on.
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- Re: Learning Network Security Basics ilaiy (Nov 01)
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- RE: Learning Network Security Basics Ramki B (Nov 01)
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