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| Security Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Security+ Skills | 
 enlarge | Authors: David R. Miller, Michael Gregg
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 167442
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 456
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470102586
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9780470102589
ASIN: 0470102586
Publication Date: February 5, 2007
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Product Description
Develop the skills you need in the real world Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at the common responsibilities of security administrators, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of a security administrator's job, including: - Designing a secure network environment
- Creating and implementing standard security policies and practices
- Identifying insecure systems in current environment
- Providing training to on-site and remote users
An invaluable study tool This no-nonsense book also covers the common tasks that CompTIA expects all of its Security+ candidates to know how to perform. So whether you're preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you'll find the instruction you need, including: - Performing an initial risk assessment
- Installing, updating, and running anti-virus
- Encrypting files and securing e-mail
- Creating new user accounts
- Deploying IPSec
The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.
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| Customer Reviews:
A practical guide to security September 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you want a good SCOPE OUT type of book, but with practical approach and example. I love this book, it lives up to its title, "street smart", it gives you the tool and direction you need to "survive" the intricacy of the street of IT, and security.
great book for security personel May 11, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
quality book and detailed, great for computer security people!
Written in a very good format March 28, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Not an Exam Cram type of book, this book is aimed at giving newcomers to the security field a solid background and understanding of what the job entails. Only incidentally does this book follow the CompTIA Security+ certificate examination (Exam #SY0-101) recommendations and thus provide a dual purpose.
The book is organized into tenphases or major sections. Each phase then has a series of Tasks to be performed. The first phase is entitled 'The Grunt Work of Security.' In it you start by making a security assessment of your network. By phase 10 you have completed hardening, securing the storage, set up user accounts, protected against virus and other malware attacks and more. In phase 10 you study troubleshooting.
I found the book to be easy reading, and the phase/task approach worked well for me. It provides a well needed break in the reading. And let's face it, reading about security is a lot less exciting than reading about Harry Potter.
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