RE: book for a newbie...?

["SimsJS" <sims () interex org>]

The two mentioned below are great! I used those as well, but also there is one called Hackers Beware that helps you 
understand what hackers do and how tools work. I found it very helpful. It is by Eric Cole.

The amazon listing is at 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735710090/qid=1078360824//ref=pd_ka_1/104-1918290-8075924?v=glance&n=507846

Jeff



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On 3/3/2004 at 5:54 PM Meidinger Chris wrote:

> I second the motion. Stephen Northcutt may be kind of hot-headed in real
> life, but he is one of my favorite authors. "INSIDE: Network Perimiter
> Security" is fantastic as you mentioned Paul; Stephen Northcutt and Judy
> Nowak's  "Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst's Handbook" is also
> absolutely fantastic.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Osterwald [mailto:paul () awesometickets net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:07 PM
> To: 'Murad Talukdar'; security-basics () lists securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: book for a newbie...?
>
> Murad, et al...
>
> Your best investment comes from New Riders publishing.  They have a series
> of books focused on security mostly from and or by/overseen Stephen
> Northcutt.  Network Intrusion Detection will teach you all about reading
> "the wire".  Intrusion Signatures and Analysis will help you learn more and
> Network Perimeter Security is a good primer...
>
> Lots of luck.
>
> Paul Osterwald
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murad Talukdar [mailto:talukdar_m () subway com]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 18:25
> To: security-basics () lists securityfocus com
> Subject: book for a newbie...?
>
> Back when you were a security nipper playing with netstat and gurgling = at
> the sight of portscans on your fisher price server, which book did = you
> use
> to learn security basics from?
> I've inherited a 50 node network and am just getting into learning how = to
> secure it.
> Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
> Murad
>
>
>
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