[unisog] Network Security Books

[David Fetrow]

> Andy Johnston wrote:
>
>> A student working with us asked me if there are any good, introductory
>> books about IT security, specifically network security.
>
> Depending on what the student is looking for, "*Network Security:
> Private Communication in a Public World"* by Kaufman, Perlman, and
> Speciner is superb.  Read the reviews on Amazon.com, they're dead-on.
> This book is /not/ about say where to put a firewall or IDS, but about
> the underlying protocols, how they're engineered, and how they should be
> implemented.

    I have to 2nd this. Kaufman and Perlman did a killer course at
    USENIX 2005. Those are a couple people that pop up over and over
    in networking during the last N years and there is good reason
    for that. That they communicate clearly is an added plus.