Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
- Published by: Wiley
- Edition: 1st Edition July 26, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 047123284X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471232841
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
Keep your network safe from security disasters with a dependable recovery strategy
Companies are finally learning that a network disaster recovery plan is mandatory in these times, and they must be prepared to make difficult choices about network security.
In the information-packed pages of this book, Annlee Hines shares her unique and diverse work experience. She explains that the first thing you need, whatever your business may be, is reliable information and an idea of what you need to protect, as well as what you are protecting it from. She then dives into a discussion of how much you can expect to spend depending on what kind of security your network requires. She also delves into addressing the variables that determine why your requirements will not necessarily be the requirements of your closest competitor.
Most importantly, Hines writes this valuable material realizing that you already know how to do your job --it's just that you now have to reconsider just how vulnerable the information nervous system of your company really is.
From major terrorist attacks to natural disasters to hackers, Annlee Hines explores how to defend your network and reviews such topics as:
* Probes, viruses, worms, and Trojan horses
* The most common vulnerabilities networks face
* Understanding and justifying costs
* Lessons to be learned from successful defense strategies
* Preparing for the worst and the requirements of network survival
* Remedies, cyber recovery, and restoration
Book Info
Keep your network safe from security disasters with a dependable recovery strategy. Author explores how to defend your network. Softcover.
Reader Reviews
Some books grab you from the first page. While I wouldn't call Annlee "Ishmael", as in Moby Dick, I'm reminded of David Kahn's The Codebreakers, opening the 3000 year history of cryptology with the tension of December 7, 1941. In this case, it opens with the author being rocked by a terrorist-caused explosion. I was surprised, given the current popularity of books about 9/11, that the event took place twenty years ago. A retired Air Force officer, she has dealt with these threats, all over the world, for many years. Her direct command and control experience teaches that there is only a certain level of protection that mission-critical networked applications can provide, without geographic diversity. Below that level is a constant range of tradeoffs, which she identifies in detail. There are many books that go into great detail on computer and network security techniques, such as firewalls and encryption. While this book identifies these and puts them in their proper context, the strength of this book is what variously could be called a systems, business or economic justification for survivability, based on a solid technical and economic foundation. Consider the title carefully -- it's not planning "secure" networks, but planning "survivable" networks. Many networks in the World Trade Center complex were secure, but not survivable for reasons such as having their backups in the other tower. Even in an era where we worry about terrorism, there's far too little attention given to ordinary fire, flood, and other natural disasters. People have told me that the discussion of floor drains to cope with fire sprinklers or firefighting elsewhere in the building is something they never thought about until they read my book, _Building Service Provider Networks_. I highly recommend this book as a different way of ensuring business and technology continuity, in a world with hacker, terrorist, criminal, and natural threats -- as well as the traditional Murphy's Law inspirations of software and hardware bugs, as well as human error.
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