For about twice the cost of the books you could take a good security course from SANS or somewhere and probably learn a lot more. Of course I have not read the books so these are just my personal comments.
_____________________ Dave Kleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netmedic.net "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." Jack Kinder -----Original Message----- From: Tim Greer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 18:24 To: John Smithson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Book Review I personally can not imagine books of this subject costing this much. I can't see how they would be worth it. I may be wrong, and maybe they make up for years of experience and knowledge from many countless other sources, but that seems extremely high. Sorry if I wasted your time responding mentioning his and not offering a review, since I've never read them, but wow...how could this possibly cost that much for this common sense information?! -- Regards, Tim Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Server administration, security, programming, consulting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Smithson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:21 PM Subject: Book Review > Hello folks, > > I would like to find out review of book by Net IQ, "Information Security > Policies Made Easy, Version 9" (ISBN Numbers: 1-881585-09-3). The retail > cost of the book is $795 (yikes). Net IQ also has another book "Information > Security Roles & Responsibilities Made Easy V1" (ISBN Numbers: > 1-881585-08-5). The retail cost of the book is $495 (another yikes). Both > books can be found at: > > http://www.netiq.com/order/category.asp?c=21&PagePath=/order/Publications.as p > > I would like to find out some of your opinions on both of these books, > before making any decision on purchasing. How would you rate these books? > How is the information provided by these books? > > Thanks, > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
