Security Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Security + Skills

By David R. Miller and Michael Gregg

Book Overview

Develop the skills you need in the real world Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at the common responsibilities of security administrators, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of a security administrator's job, including: Designing a secure network environment Creating and implementing standard security policies and practices Identifying insecure systems in current environment Providing training to on-site and remote users An invaluable study tool This no-nonsense book also covers the common tasks that CompTIA expects all of its Security+ candidates to know how to perform. So whether you're preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you'll find the instruction you need, including: Performing an initial risk assessment Installing, updating, and running anti-virus Encrypting files and securing e-mail Creating new user accounts Deploying IPSec The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470102586
• ISBN13: 9780470102589
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Sybex Inc
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Good Read

This book was a good read for a basic/intermediate focus on security administration. It provided exercises that could be done to demonstrate security practices and automation. Some of the technology is outdated but it still was a good read. Dealt mostly with Windows Server 2003 and XP

A practical guide to security

If you want a good SCOPE OUT type of book, but with practical approach and example. I love this book, it lives up to its title, "street smart", it gives you the tool and direction you need to "survive" the intricacy of the street of IT, and security.

great book for security personel

quality book and detailed, great for computer security people!

Written in a very good format

Not an Exam Cram type of book, this book is aimed at giving newcomers to the security field a solid background and understanding of what the job entails. Only incidentally does this book follow the CompTIA Security+ certificate examination (Exam #SY0-101) recommendations and thus provide a dual purpose. The book is organized into tenphases or major sections. Each phase then has a series of Tasks to be performed. The first phase is entitled 'The Grunt Work of Security.' In it you start by making a security assessment of your network. By phase 10 you have completed hardening, securing the storage, set up user accounts, protected against virus and other malware attacks and more. In phase 10 you study troubleshooting. I found the book to be easy reading, and the phase/task approach worked well for me. It provides a well needed break in the reading. And let's face it, reading about security is a lot less exciting than reading about Harry Potter.