| | |  | Software Design, Testing & Engineering | Home » » » Information Security: Principles and Practices | | | | | | | Description: | | For an introductory course in information security covering principles and practices. This text covers the ten domains in the Information Security Common Body of Knowledge, which are Security Management Practices, Security Architecture and Models, Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Law, Investigations, and Ethics, Physical Security, Operations Security, Access Control Systems and Methodology, Cryptography, Telecommunications, Network, and Internet Security. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Mark Merkow | | Paperback:
| 448 pages | | Publisher:
| Prentice Hall | | Publication Date:
| August 29, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0131547291 | | Product Width:
| 188.5 centimeters | | Product Height:
| 230.25 centimeters | | Product Weight:
| 1.52 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Stay Away!Feb 16, 2008
By mts
This is the worst textbook I have ever read. I have two degrees and have attended eight different colleges or universities. This book stands alone as being the worst textbook it has been my displeasure to use. The authors cannot follow a simple logical flow on a single topic. Their categorizations wander around. Their examples are sophomoric. Their diagrams are often next to useless. They spend considerable time examining useless minutia and then fail to address key points. Their chapter review questions are either pointlessly easy or completely unintelligible. In many cases, you cannot discern the answers with the book open. Yet, somehow, the exams that accompany the text are an even greater disappointment. They violate every principle of good testing to reinforce objectives and key points. They state in the book that "security through obscurity" is a flawed concept. Yet, they seem to adhere to the principle of "education through obfuscation". Stay away! Stay far away!
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Information Security for the Practical MindSep 28, 2005
By InfoSecGuru
"A CC Enthusiast"
If you're new to IT Security or beginning to get stuck in the mire that pervades most books on the topic, this is the resource you need. Between those books that are a mile wide and an inch-deep or those an inch wide and a mile-deep, readers are left with too little knowledge of the breadth of Information and Network Security and may become discouraged to learn enough about Information Security to make an informed decisions -- career or technology wise.
Because Information Security is a broad career choice where it's impossible to become an expert in all areas, this book uses the industry-accepted Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) defined by the International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium, Inc. (...) as the organizing framework to describe the 10 domains of knowledge at a principles and practices level without over-complicating these topics with implementation details or product-specific bias.
If you're in the market for materials to fast-track your understanding of information systems security, look no further!
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Text bookApr 30, 2009
By Dwight Falconer
I was pleased with my book however I didn't know that it was being shipped from the UK which added to the delivery time
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