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RE: Book Review
From: "Daniel B. Cid" <danielcid () yahoo com br>
Date: 23 Jul 2003 11:42:04 -0400
I agree with you. I saw a lot of excelente books for less than 100 dolars. And you have the internet(and google) with all these topics covered a lot ... Daniel B. Cid
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:21, dave kleiman wrote: For about twice the cost of the books you could take a good security course from SANS or somewhere and probably learn a lot more. Of course I have not read the books so these are just my personal comments. _____________________ Dave Kleiman dave () netmedic net www.netmedic.net "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." Jack Kinder -----Original Message----- From: Tim Greer [mailto:chatmaster () charter net] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 18:24 To: John Smithson; security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Book Review I personally can not imagine books of this subject costing this much. I can't see how they would be worth it. I may be wrong, and maybe they make up for years of experience and knowledge from many countless other sources, but that seems extremely high. Sorry if I wasted your time responding mentioning his and not offering a review, since I've never read them, but wow...how could this possibly cost that much for this common sense information?! -- Regards, Tim Greer chatmaster () charter net Server administration, security, programming, consulting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Smithson" <why1234 () hotmail com> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:21 PM Subject: Book ReviewHello folks, I would like to find out review of book by Net IQ, "Information Security Policies Made Easy, Version 9" (ISBN Numbers: 1-881585-09-3). The retail cost of the book is $795 (yikes). Net IQ also has another book"InformationSecurity Roles & Responsibilities Made Easy V1" (ISBN Numbers: 1-881585-08-5). The retail cost of the book is $495 (another yikes).Bothbooks can be found at:http://www.netiq.com/order/category.asp?c=21&PagePath=/order/Publications.as pI would like to find out some of your opinions on both of these books, before making any decision on purchasing. How would you rate these books? How is the information provided by these books? Thanks, _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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