RE: book for a newbie...?

["Paul Osterwald" <paul () awesometickets net>]

Murad, et al...

Your best investment comes from New Riders publishing.  They have a series
of books focused on security mostly from and or by/overseen Stephen
Northcutt.  Network Intrusion Detection will teach you all about reading
"the wire".  Intrusion Signatures and Analysis will help you learn more and
Network Perimeter Security is a good primer...

Lots of luck.

Paul Osterwald

-----Original Message-----
From: Murad Talukdar [mailto:talukdar_m () subway com] 
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 18:25
To: security-basics () lists securityfocus com
Subject: book for a newbie...?

Back when you were a security nipper playing with netstat and gurgling =
at the sight of portscans on your fisher price server, which book did =
you use to learn security basics from?
I've inherited a 50 node network and am just getting into learning how =
to secure it.
Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
Murad




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