- Teaches user how to guard the perimeter to protect the internal network
- Full of good information without too much fluff or filler
- Covers range of perimeter security technologies from PKI to VPN and more
- Short on the details needed to actually implement a network perimeter defense
- Network perimeter defense is an important part of protecting your internal network(s)
- Building defense in depth is an important concept that the author conveys well
- Case studies help to illustrate for the reader how these technologies can be put to use
- A little too much information for non-techies and not enough for techies to rely on to implement.
- Concise and comprehensive. A lot of good information packed into a relatively small book
This book is concise and comprehensive in its coverage of network perimeter security technologies and strategies, but the result is that the book has too much technical information for a manager or novice to fully comprehend, while not providing enough technical detail for a security or network administrator to truly put the information into action. I feel like with a little tweaking in either direction it would be an excellent book for one of those two audiences, but as is it is a good book that misses both targets.
That is not to say that the information isn't correct or that the book isn't well-written. The information that is there is very good. The use of case studies really helps to bring real-world perspective that can help the reader understand the issues with network perimeter security and how these technologies can be implemented to theoretically protect the network.
This is a good book to help you understand how to go about protecting the network perimeter and how layering security technology provides better defense than one security technology alone. I think many people will find valuable and useful information here- but I wouldn't recommend this if its the only book you're going to get or solely rely on.