[CALUG] opinion on book(s) on network security?

[Jason Dixon]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 09:43:21AM -0400, Rajiv Gunja wrote:
> Ed,
> I have read/browsed that book online. I felt that it is good only for
> learning different jargons that is put out there when geeks and sysadmins
> talk about security. But it fails very much to explain how to protect your
> system or even simply identify what services a distribution will have open.
> 
> Yes I agree that it is very difficult to write a Linux Network Security when
> there are over 150 Linux Distributions, but at least the basic concept of
> Security should be covered in a book I read and this book fails it.

Keep in mind that modern exploits tend to focus on the application services
and less on the underlying OSI L2-4 layers.  A "Linux Security" book
will only get you so far (as Ed alluded to).


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