Security Awareness: Applying Practical Security in Your World

by Mark Ciampa

For most students and computer users, practical computer security poses some daunting challenges: What type of attacks will antivirus software prevent? How do I set up a firewall? How can I test my computer to be sure that attackers cannot reach it through the Internet? When and how should I install Windows patches? SECURITY AWARENESS: APPLYING PRACTICAL SECURITY IN YOUR WORLD, 3E is designed to help readers understand the answers to these questions, and provide you with the knowledge you need to make your computer and home or small office network secure. This book presents a basic introduction to practical computer security for all users, from students to home users to business professionals. Security topics are introduced through a series of real-life user experiences, showing why computer security is necessary and providing the essential elements for making and keeping computers secure. Going beyond just the concepts of computer security, students will gain practical skills on how to protect computers and networks from increasingly sophisticated attacks. Each chapter in the book contains hands-on projects to help make the reader's computer secure, such as how to use and configure security hardware and software. These projects are designed to make the content come alive through actually performing the tasks. In addition, this experienced author provides realistic security case projects that put you in the role of a security consultant working to solve problems for clients through various scenarios.

Genres: Textbooks

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2004

Reviews

[Tara Scherner de la fuente · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm just gonna go ahead and direct you to another review I read, which was accurate: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Actually, there's the link for credit. Here's the full thing quoted:

For a textbook, it's a fairly decent read. There was an attempt to make it interesting, and the writing wasn't pretentious and painful to read.
Plus, it was a fairly informative text with a good introduction to basic security principals. So yay for that.
Go textbook.

[Tim Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this for school and had to go through it faster than I would have liked. I hope to get a chance to go back through it and do some of the exercises.

This book gives a good introduction to online security and data protection. The section on cryptography was a little confusing (in the “how” sense but not the basic concept). It could use some updating with respect to cloud computing. Otherwise, I felt I learned a lot.

[Pais · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good 100-level introduction to cybersecurity concepts, from personal security to network security to privacy issues.

[Andrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a textbook, it's a fairly decent read. There was an attempt to make it interesting, and the writing wasn't pretentious and painful to read.
Plus, it was a fairly informative text with a good introduction to basic security principals. So yay for that.
Go textbook.

[Chaz]

A Must Have for ANY computer user!