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Title: Incomplete and dated
Review: I bought this book along with many others a while back. I am a network security consultant. I wanted to broaden my skills a bit and make sure my knowledge was up to par with others in the field.I found this book very incomplete and dated. Most of the information was relevant about 5 years ago. Since then tatics and technologies have changed rather significantly.For example, the book does not even mention intrusion detection systems. This is a staple technology of the security community and any hacker worth his weight would focus a great deal of energy on circumnavigating or overloading these devices.Also, the book treats firewalls as the "end all be all" of network security. Which simply is not the case. Firewalls are important, but certainly not the only security product you implement.Pass this book by and go for much better books such as Hackers Challenge or Know Your Enemy by the Honeynet team.
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