This book is not strictly an instructional, or "How To" book. Its purpose is to get you started on a solid education in Internet security. As such, it is probably constructed differently from any computer book you have ever read. Although this book cannot teach you everything you need to know, the references contained within this book can. Therefore, if you know very little about Internet security, you will want to maximize the value of this book by adhering to the following procedure:
Each chapter (except early ones that set the stage) contains intermittent references that might point to white papers, technical reports, or other sources of solid, reliable information of substance (pertaining to the topic at hand). Those references appear in boxes labeled XREF.As you encounter each source, stop for a moment to retrieve that source from the Net. After you retrieve the source, read it, then continue reading the book. Throughout the book, perform this operation whenever and wherever applicable. If you do so, you will finish with a very solid basic education on Internet security. I have constructed this book in this manner because Internet security is not a static field; it changes rapidly. Nonetheless, there are certain basics that every person interested in security must have. Those basics are not contained (in their entirety) in any one book (perhaps not even in dozens of them). The information is located on the Internet in the form of documents written by authorities on the subject. These are the people who either designed and developed the Internet or have designed and developed its security features. The body of their work is vast, but each paper or technical report is, at most, 40 pages in length (most are fewer than 10).
Those readers who want only a casual education in Internet security may read the book without ever retrieving a single document from the Internet. But if you are searching for something more, something deeper, you can obtain it by adhering to this procedure.
If you choose to use the book as a reference tool in the manner I have described, there are certain conventions that you need to know. If the resource you have been directed to is a tool, consider downloading it even if it is not for your platform. With a proper archive tool (like Winzip), you can extract the documents that accompany the distribution of that tool. Such documents often contain extremely valuable information. For example, the now famous scanner named SATAN(made expressly for UNIX) contains security tutorials in HTML. These do not require that you have UNIX (in fact, all they require is a browser). Likewise, many other tools contain documents in PDF, TXT, DOC, PS, and other formats that are readable on any platform.
Each chapter (except early ones that set the stage) contains intermittent references that might point to white papers, technical reports, or other sources of solid, reliable information of substance (pertaining to the topic at hand). Those references appear in boxes labeled XREF.As you encounter each source, stop for a moment to retrieve that source from the Net. After you retrieve the source, read it, then continue reading the book. Throughout the book, perform this operation whenever and wherever applicable. If you do so, you will finish with a very solid basic education on Internet security. I have constructed this book in this manner because Internet security is not a static field; it changes rapidly. Nonetheless, there are certain basics that every person interested in security must have. Those basics are not contained (in their entirety) in any one book (perhaps not even in dozens of them). The information is located on the Internet in the form of documents written by authorities on the subject. These are the people who either designed and developed the Internet or have designed and developed its security features. The body of their work is vast, but each paper or technical report is, at most, 40 pages in length (most are fewer than 10).
Those readers who want only a casual education in Internet security may read the book without ever retrieving a single document from the Internet. But if you are searching for something more, something deeper, you can obtain it by adhering to this procedure.
If you choose to use the book as a reference tool in the manner I have described, there are certain conventions that you need to know. If the resource you have been directed to is a tool, consider downloading it even if it is not for your platform. With a proper archive tool (like Winzip), you can extract the documents that accompany the distribution of that tool. Such documents often contain extremely valuable information. For example, the now famous scanner named SATAN(made expressly for UNIX) contains security tutorials in HTML. These do not require that you have UNIX (in fact, all they require is a browser). Likewise, many other tools contain documents in PDF, TXT, DOC, PS, and other formats that are readable on any platform.
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