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| Title: |
VoIP Security |
| Author: |
James F.
Ransome, John W. Rittinghouse |
| ISBN: |
1-5558-332-6 (US) |
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| Publisher: |
Elsevier Digital Press
402 pages, $49.95 US |
| Reviewed: |
Winter 2005/2006 |
| This is not
the VoIP Security book you are looking for. The first half of
the book is a stale review of telephone and generic data networking
technologies. Then the book bounces from topic to topic, touching
on high level details and generalities, never actually providing
any actual details on what to do about VoIP security. It says
very little about VoIP. The level of detail in this book is about
what your CIO probably knew before they paid you to go research
the subject of VoIP security. Download a copy of Asterisk and
install it on a Linux box and play around for a few hours
you'll learn more about VoIP security that way. |
| Rating: |
* / 1
out of 5 |
| Title: |
Silence
on the Wire
A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks |
| Author: |
Michal Zalewski |
| ISBN: |
1-59327-046-1 |
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| Publisher: |
No Starch Press
312 pages, $39.95 US |
| Reviewed: |
Summer/Fall 2005 |
| There's a
point of view that says we need to think "outside the box"
to improve the security of the Internet. Zalewski offers an insightful
set of vignettes into how we might go about doing this. Most
of these ideas are not new but the book presents them in a very
interesting context. If you want to start thinking about defending
networks - by attacking them - this is a good read. He doesn't
teach you to hack networks, but it's a very useful resource if
you need to study the art of hunting the network for vulnerabilities. |
| Rating: |
**** / 4
out of 5 |
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