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Title: Programming Windows Security by Keith Brown ISBN: 0-201-60442-6 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 05 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is great!
Comment: I have been working with Windows NT since beta Version 3.1 and I did not really understand how to program windows security until I read this book. This is a difficult topic and the author makes it easy to understand along the lines of Don Box's 'Essential COM' or a Charles Petzold's 'Programming Windows'. Kieth Brown has a deep understanding of Windows NT security and he shares it with you in this book. If you ever wanted to know why a user must logoff and back on before an access control change will take effect - read this book. If you want to know which security API's you should be using and which you should avoid - read this book. If you want to understand why your IIS website using Windows integrated security can't access a SQL database on another machine without including a user/password pair in the connection string - read this book. If you don't really understand what tokens, logon sessions, window stations or desktops are - read this book.
Even though this book is targeted to programmers it is also a great resource for Administrators who really want to understand how security works in Windows NT4 & 2000.
Rating: 4
Summary: Definitely a Worthwhile Purchase
Comment: Anyone involved in Windows NT/2000 security development would benefit from adding this book to their library. Brown definitely does an excellent job of explaining one of the more difficult aspects of Windows NT/2000 development -- in fact, I'd say that his treatment of ACLs, security descriptors, desktops, window stations and access tokens is among the best that I have read. The only reason that I don't rate this book with 5 stars is that it does not include anything on the LSA APIs. These are some of the more intimidating APIs that a security developer will ever tangle with, but they are essential for such handy little tasks as joining workstations to domains, creating and/or modifying user or group machine rights, or coding replacement GINA dlls. You can find some pretty decent refrences to these APIs (as well as some decent code examples) on msdn dot microsoft dot com, but you have to hunt for them. Having the LSA included in a handy reference such as this book would definitely make it worthy of a five star rating!
Rating: 5
Summary: At last a serious look at Windows security
Comment: Keith Brown's book is a refreshing change from the 'stick in something about security in a side-bar' approach taken by so many authors. Finally a book which explains lucidly what amounts to a very complex topic; and does so in an understandable and enjoyable fashion. If there were 6 stars on the rating scale then it would get a 6...
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Title: Writing Secure Code, Second Edition by Michael Howard, David C. LeBlanc ISBN: 0735617228 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 04 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, Third Edition by Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon ISBN: 0735610215 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Windows Security Inside Out for Windows XP and Windows 2000 by Ed Bott, Carl Siechert ISBN: 0735616329 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter ISBN: 0735614229 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 23 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000 by Jeffrey Richter, Jason D. Clark ISBN: 0735607532 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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