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Fighting Computer Crime : A New Framework for Protecting Information
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Author: Donn B. Parker
List Price: $40.00
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ISBN: 0471163783
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (27 August, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 60,595
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
GREAT BOOK!
This is a great book.Donn Parker is one of the patriarchs of information security. He is reasonable and pragmatic. No hype, just great information.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Starts good but ends up in the blue
The first chapters are quite good, but then the content really goes off into the blue. There are a few interesting things in all chapters, but overall I would not recommend anyone to buy this book. It's not that I'm a 100% computer nerd who don't like non-technical books, but most of this book is a lot of talk that doesn't connect very well with real down-on-earth things. The only people I can imagine who would like this book are complete newbies to information security who are coming from the academic world and never have been exposed to the field in practice. There's nothing wrong with theory, but it has to connect to the real world in a way that you really can use it.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Fighting Computer Crime by Donn B. Parker
I found Donn Parkers superb book to be an excellent reference during my MSc (IT Security) . His analysis of how CIA is an old concept is worth the cost of the book alone. I have read the book several times and regularly call upon his concepts and methodologies, many of which are already in management non technical speak. If you buy this book, do it because you either currently operate or you want to move your thinking to a higher level - If you are fighting computer crime at the systems or network level, this is probably the wrong book for you, as it is not technically orientated. If however you are engaged in deriving policy, explaining new concepts in IT security to management or network/secure system design then you should count this book as a must have.
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