Guide to Firewalls and Network Security: Intrusion Detection and VPNs

Provides comprehensive overview of building and maintaining firewalls in a business environment, and maps to the objectives of CheckPoint?s CCSA certification. more

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Posted: Jan-14-2008

This book is horrible

Don't waste your money with this book. It is horrible. I can't believe my college uses this as a textbook. Information in the text was incorrect. Come on, it's not hard to put the OSI layer in the correct order. Even found a review question that didn't even have the correct answer as an...

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Posted: Dec-03-2007

This book is a joke, I got more laughs than good information.

It is unreal how bad this book is. It states simple concepts incorrectly throughout. The terminology and presentation is simplistic at best. I am a Networking Professional and a Network Security student. I knew more before I read this book and was left a bit confused afterward. It even claims...

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Posted: Jun-17-2006

Would be good toilet paper, but the pages are too stiff

This book is used as the text book for my college course. The examples are ridiculous, the exercises are nuts, and the definitions are strange. "This book is not intended to be read in sequence, from beginning to end." (from the book's introduction) Maybe the book isn't meant to be read at...

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Posted: Apr-20-2006

Students and newbies beware!

If I could put negative stars for this book I would.I am reading this book as a requirement for a network security course. This book by far has to be the most poorly written misleading book I've ever read. In the first chapter there is technically wrong information: The OSI reference model has a...

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Posted: Jan-15-2005

Major Disappointment

This book was required for a Computer Forensics related class. There are many errors, not just typographical, but in concepts and technical information. At times it is filled with a mind-numbing number of details, much of which will be obsolete by the time you read this. In other areas it skips...

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Posted: Jul-19-2004

Don't waste your $$$

After browsing it twice, I finally put it down.It's very introductive, simple and not well-written to a newbie.It doesn't cover that much on Checkpoint...The rest you can get it from the Internet.

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