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Title: Netspionage : The Global Threat to Information by William C. Boni, Gerald L. Kovacich ISBN: 0-7506-7257-9 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Pub. Date: 11 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How to best protect and secure information
Comment: In Netspionage: The Global Threat To Information, William Boni and Gerald Kovacich draw upon there many years of professional experience in corporate security and intelligence to describe and address Internet-based threats to information security. Very highly recommended, essential reading for anyone charged with corporate, government, or personal information security in this age of cyberspace hackers, terrorists, and espionage, Netspionage is a very practical and experience-based guide to the evolution of information collection and how to best protect and secure information from unwarranted and criminal attempts to access and corrupt corporate records, databases, projects, and trade secrets.
Rating: 1
Summary: Wow, is this book poorly written.
Comment: This book reads like the authors' notes for giving presentations - which I'm sure it is. There is a ton of repetition, and it obviously wasn't edited at all. Plus, the grammar and punctuation are what you might get if you asked a third grader to write with the dense verboseness and gobbledygook of a military tech-writer. This is the first book on the subject that I have read, and there was some good, basic information, as well as some unintentional laughs. But surely there are better books out there, at a better price. The hard information in this could have easily been condensed down to a pamphlet.
Rating: 1
Summary: A waste of money
Comment: This is the first book that I have read that originates from a Power Point presentation. You can tell because the original Power Point slides are reproduced (poorly) and intersperced throughout the book.
I would guess that these slides were used to great effect several years ago to stunned senior managers of companies still figuring out what the Internet meant. But in 2001, most people are beyond needing this explained to them. To give an idea of the target audience, one of the slides is titled something like "Historical Development of Information Technology" and includes "Invention of Abacus - 3,000 B.C." Is that big picture and patronizing enough for you? How about page after page explaining what the Internet is and revelations like "Other companies can use the Internet to do bad things. Like gather information about YOUR company." "Other companies may try to STEAL your information". Etc. etc. etc., mostly filler (probably the filler they used to fill out the time giving the presentation) A saving grace would have been if the authors had annecdotes of real instances of "Netspionage", or other "inside" experiences to impart, but most of the concrete examples they give appear to be from published cases. So, if you already know what the Internet is and that IT security is imporant, don't bother. If you don't know either of these things, buy a book about the Internet and remember, IT security is imporant.
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Title: Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier ISBN: 0387026207 Publisher: Copernicus Books Pub. Date: 28 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box by Ryan Russell, Ido Dubrawsky, FX, Joe Grand, Tim Mullen ISBN: 1931836876 Publisher: Syngress Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism by Dan Verton ISBN: 0072227877 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It by Rachel Ehrenfeld, R. James Woolsey (Foreword) ISBN: 1566251966 Publisher: Bonus Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Malware: Fighting Malicious Code by Ed Skoudis, Lenny Zeltser ISBN: 0131014056 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 09 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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