Network Security, Firewalls, and VPNs (Jones & Bartlett Learning Information Systems Security & Assurance) 1st Edition

This book arrived in a decent amount of time and it was in great condition. The price was also great considering it is a textbook for one of my classes, I hope to buy more in the future if I need them for my classes.

Great resource if you are new to the field. Having gone through the first three chapters I would say it's very rudimentary information. Hoping later chapters go deeper.

great book and much cheaper than my schools bookstore.

I'm sorry, I'm not a great writer myself, but do not buy this book if you are actually trying to work in network security! I had to buy it for a college course, I can tell this was written by an academic, with little to no real world experience:- A lot of terms were very basic, not in depth enough to actually DO the job.- Some of the terms and/or definitions were simply regurgitated from the same old academia terms, oversimplified description, shows no true understanding of them.- There were even a few terms in here that I've never even heard (20+ years experience and more credentials than the author) and I couldn't find those terms used anywhere else on the Internet like they were in the book. So pretty much incorrect or made up terms if you ask me.

A little outdated in a few topics and won't impress due to lack of substantiating points. Seems to advertise specific products such as SmoothWall, which costs like $30,000...

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Jones & Bartlett Learning needs to hire a better editor and fire whomever is designing the labs for their virtual lab component. For example, at the end of chapter 8 you will find the header proclaim that it is the chapter 7 review questions. The questions do actually belong to chapter 8, just the header is wrong. Really shoddy editing.Their virtual lab components are laughable at best and are outright incompetently designed. Two of the labs have you create a firewall rule set that ends with a rule that is any any allow. Anyone who knows firewalls knows why that is a stupid rule, especially considering they just had you create 6 or so other rules that would be completely irrelevant the moment you finish with allow all. The two labs are identical with the only difference being that you do it once of a workstation and once on a server OS. They even have you create a rule on the workstation for TCP port 53 which would be a DNS zone transfer... Why would you need that on a workstation?The next few labs have you log onto their virtual lab environment and read a bunch of pdfs.... Their labs are a joke!Their virtual labs are also littered with steps that do not belong to that particular lab, and instructions that reference steps that do not exist. I have taken 3 400 level classes with them now and they are consistently awful.