From rpower@mfi.com Thu May 23 01:08:54 1996 Received: from whiz.mfi.com (whiz.mfi.com [198.71.19.34]) by suburbia.net (8.7.4/Proff-950810) with SMTP id BAA22903 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 01:08:30 +1000 Received: from ccmail.mfi.com by whiz.mfi.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA09546; Wed, 22 May 1996 07:55:22 -0700 Received: from ccMail by mfi.com id AA832776685 Wed, 22 May 96 07:51:25 PST Date: Wed, 22 May 96 07:51:25 PST From: "Power, Richard" Encoding: 1568 Text Message-Id: <9604228327.AA832776685@mfi.com> To: best-of-security@suburbia.net Subject: Re: BoS: Practical Unix Security Volume #2 I just want to second Peter Neumann's comments regarding Spafford and Garfinkel's new book. It's an outstanding resource. Richard Power Computer Security Institute _______________________________________________________________________________ Subject: BoS: Practical Unix Security Volume #2 From: best-of-security@suburbia.net at Internet Date: 5/21/96 1:57 PM Garfinkel/Spafford, Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 2nd ed. Practical UNIX and Internet Security, Second Edition By Simson Garfinkel and Eugene Spafford O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1996 1004 pages. ISBN: 1-56592-148-8. $39.95 This book is an extraordinarily successful effort to cram into a mere thousand pages (971+xxix+ORAads) almost everything you need to know about Unix and Internet security. It is a complete rewrite of the First Edition of 1991, and contains much new material. In terms of pages per dollar or cents per page, or much more important, the amount of money it can save you by keeping you away from a horrendous array of potential security problems, it is an incredible bargain. This is a keeper -- at least until the Third Edition comes out, perhaps in 2001. By then, the authors will be able to write much more definitively about Java and web browsers, which are treated only lightly in the Second Edition. (Too much happening, too fast?) Everything else, however, seems well covered and very nicely written. This is a very readable and very useful book, and deserves to be looked at by all of you. Peter Neumann