Author: Timothy Shimeall and Jonathan Spring
ISBN No: 978-1-59749-969-9
Review date: 16/12/2025
No of pages: 360
Publisher: Elsevier-Syngress
Publisher URL:
http://store.elsevier.com
Year of publication: 17/02/2014
Brief:
Introduction to Information Security: A strategic-based approach
price
£34.49
It makes sense to read Introduction to Information Security as an ebook. The advantage; as with anything digital, if you can recall a phrase you want to return to, you can type it and search for it, whereas if it’s not in a paper book’s index you have to thumb through page after page. As an American book, it covers US law on the subject. That’s hardly the American authors’ fault. If you want to roll your sleeves up and do the computer equivalent of getting your hands greasy under the bonnet, this book will take you through hosts, firewalls, passwords, phishing and the like. Thanks partly to case studies and profiles, the authors never forget that infosec is about people, both the good guys and the fraudsters and hackers. One quibble is that the book is hard going, with phrases such as ‘operating environment’ and ‘configuration management’. Infosec is complicated; but does it have to sound this difficult?!
