Security Bookshelf: Popular print resources for security technology
Syllabus' sister publication, Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, recently
put together this list of top books on IT security. If you've vowed to bring
yourself and your campus up to speed on security this year, scan this list for
a wide range of expert advice.
.NET Framework Security
Brian A. LaMacchia, Sebastian Lange, Matthew Lyons, Rudi Martin, Kevin T. Price
Addison-Wesley
067232184X
April 24, 2002
$57.99
Anti-Hacker Tool Kit
Keith J. Jones, Mike Shema, Bradley C. Johnson
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072222824
June 25, 2002
$59.99
The Art of Deception : Controlling the Human Element of Security
Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
Hungry Minds
076454280X
October 2003
$16.95
Authentication: From Passwords to Public Keys
Richard E. Smith
Addison-Wesley
0201615991
October 1, 2001
$44.99
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
Bruce Schneier
Copernicus Books
0387026207
September 2003
$25
Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way
John Viega, Gary McGraw
Addison-Wesley
020172152X
September 24, 2001
$54.99
Building an Information Security Awareness Program
Mark B. Desman
Auerbach
0849301165
October 30, 2001
$49.95
Building Internet Firewalls (2nd Edition)
Elizabeth D. Zwicky, Simon Cooper, D. Brent Chapman
O'Reilly & Associates
1565928717
January 15, 2000
$49.95
The CERT Guide to System and Network Security Practices
Julia H. Allen
Addison-Wesley
020173723X
June 7, 2001
$39.99
Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials
Warren G. Kruse II, Jay G. Heiser
Addison-Wesley
0201707195
September 26, 2001
$44.99
Computer Security Incident Handling: Step-by-Step (Version 2.3.1)
Stephen Northcutt
SANS Institute
0972427376
March 2003
$29.99
Counter Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses
Ed Skoudis
Prentice Hall PTR
0130332739
July 23, 2001
$49.99
Computer Security Handbook
Seymour Bosworth and Michel E. Kabay, Editors
John Wiley & Sons
0471412589
April 2002
$80
Designing Security Architecture Solutions
Jay Ramachandran
John Wiley & Sons
0471206024
March 1, 2002
$55
The E-Policy Handbook: Designing and Implementing Effective E-Mail, Internet,
and Software Policies
Nancy L. Flynn
AMACOM
0814470912
November 2000
$19.95
The Effective Incident Response Team
Julie Lucas, Brian M'eller
Addison-Wesley
0201761750
September 26, 2003
$39.99
Firewall Architecture for the Enterprise
Norbert Pohlmann, Tim Crothers
John Wiley & Sons
July 8, 2002
076454926X
$49.99
Firewalls: The Complete Reference
Keith Strassberg, Gary Rollie, Richard Gondek
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072195673
May 28, 2002
$59.99
Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition
William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, Aviel D. Rubin
Addison-Wesley
020163466X
February 24, 2003
$49.99
The Hack Counter-Hack Training Course: A Desktop Seminar
Edward Skoudis
Prentice Hall PTR
013047729X
June 14, 2002
$69.99
Hacker's Challenge 2: Test Your Network Security & Forensic Skills
Mike Schiffman, Bill Pennington, David Pollino, Adam J. O'Donnell
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072226307
December 18, 2002
$39.99
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Fourth Edition
Stuart McClure, J'el Scambray, George Kurtz
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072227427
February 25, 2003
$49.99
Hacking Exposed Web Applications
J'el Scambray, Mike Shema
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
007222438X
June 19, 2002
$49.99
Hacking Exposed Windows 2000
J'el Scambray, Stuart McClure
0072192623
August 29, 2001
$49.99
Hacking Exposed Windows Server 2003
J'el Scambray, Stuart McClure
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072230614
October 27, 2003
$49.99
Hacking Linux Exposed
Brian Hatch, James B. Lee, George Kurtz
0072127732
March 27, 2001
$39.99
HackNotes Web Security Pocket Reference
Mike Shema
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072227842
June 30, 2003
$29.99
Honeypots: Tracking Hackers
Lance Spitzner
Addison-Wesley
0321108957
September 10, 2002
$44.99
Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime
Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072131829
June 21, 2001
$39.99
Information Security Architecture, Second Edition
Jan Killmeyer Tudor
CRC Press
0849315492
June 28, 2003
$79.95
Information Security Architecture: An Integrated Approach to Security in
the Organization
Jan Killmeyer Tudor
CRC Press
0849399882
September 25, 2000
$69.95
Information Security Management Handbook, Fourth Edition, Volume 4
Micki Krause and Harold F. Tipton, Editors
Auerbach
0849315182
November 26, 2002
$69.95
Information Security Policies, Procedures, and Standards: Guidelines for
Effective Information Security Management
Thomas R. Peltier
CRC Press
0849311373
December 20, 2001
$69.95
Information Security Policy Manual
Edmond D. Jones
Rothstein Associates
1931332096
February 23, 2001
$89
Information Security Risk Analysis
Thomas R. Peltier
Auerbach
0849308801
January 23, 2001
$69.95
The Information Systems Security Officer's Guide: Establishing and Managing
an Information Protection Program
Gerald L. Kovacich
Butterworth-Heinemann
0750698969
May 1998
$41.95
Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, Virtual
Private Networks (VPNs), Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems
Stephen Northcutt, Lenny Zeltser, Scott Winters, Karen Fredrick, Ronald W. Ritchey
Que
0735712328
June 28, 2002
$49.99
Intrusion Detection with Snort
Jack Koziol
SAMS
157870281X
May 20, 2003
$45
Intrusion Signatures and Analysis
Mark Cooper, Stephen Northcutt, Matt Fearnow, Karen Frederick
Que
0735710635
January 29, 2001
$39.99
Kerberos: A Network Authentication System
Brian Tung
Addison-Wesley
0201379244
May 4, 1999
$19.95
Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the
Blackhat Community
The Honeynet Project
Addison-Wesley
0201746131
August 31, 2001
$39.99
Linux Security Cookbook
Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes
O'Reilly & Associates
0596003919
June 2003
$39.95
Linux Server Hacks
Rob Flickenger, Editor
O'Reilly & Associates
0596004613
January 2003
$24.95
Malware: Fighting Malicious Code
Ed Skoudis, Lenny Zeltser
Prentice Hall PTR
0131014056
November 9, 2003
$44.99
Managing A Network Vulnerability Assessment
Justin Peltier, John A. Blackley, Thomas R. Peltier
Auerbach
0849312701
May 30, 2003
$59.95
Network Intrusion Detection, Third Edition
Stephen Northcutt, Judy Novak
Que
0735712654
August 27, 2002
$49.99
Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World
Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner
Prentice Hall PTR
0130460192
April 15, 2002
$54.99
PKI: Implementing & Managing E-Security
Andrew Nash, Bill Duane, Derek Brink, Celia Joseph
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072131233
March 27, 2001
$49.99
Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition
Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz
O'Reilly & Associates
0596003234
February 2003
$54.95
Real World Linux Security: Intrusion Prevention, Detection and Recovery
Bob Toxen
Prentice Hall PTR
November 2000
0130281875
$44.99
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
Bruce Schneier
John Wiley & Sons
0471453803
January 2004
$17.95
Security Architecture: Design, Deployment and Operations
Christopher King, Ertem Osmanoglu (Editor), Curtis Dalton
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072133856
July 30, 2001
$49.99
The Shellcoder's Handbook : Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes
Jack Koziol, David Litchfield, Dave Aitel, Chris Anley, Sinan Eren, Neel Mehta,
Riley Hassell
John Wiley & Sons
0764544683
March 2004
$50
Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection
Brian Caswell, Jay Beale, James C. Foster (Editor), Jeremy Faircloth (Editor)
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072226307
December 18, 2002
$39.99
Special Ops: Host and Network Security for Microsoft, UNIX, and Oracle
Erik Pace Birkholz, Stuart McClure
Syngress
1931836698
February 17, 2003
$69.95
Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box
Ryan Russell (Editor), Ido Dubrawsky, FX
Syngress
1931836876
June 2003
$49.95
SQL Server Security
Chip Andrews, David Litchfield, Bill Grindlay
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
0072225157
August 27, 2003
$49.99
SQL Server Security Distilled
Morris Lewis
APress
1590591925
July 1, 2003
$39.99
Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense
Stuart McClure, Saumil Shah, Shreeraj Shah
Addison-Wesley
0201761769
August 8, 2002
$49.99
Writing Information Security Policies
Scott Barman
Que
157870264X
November 9, 2001
$34.99
Writing Secure Code
Michael Howard and David Lebl, David LeBlanc
Microsoft Press
0735615888
December 15, 2001
$39.99
-Michael Domingo
Editor, MCPMag.com
