Practical Advice - Great read

While this book will NOT teach you how to hack into someone's systems, it is clear from these stories from Linda McCarthy, that it is far too easily done. McCarthy's uses an excellent format for conveying what could be a host of confusing information. She tells a series of stories based on her experience as a security auditor and consultant. The stories are all very entertaining and an easy read. She concludes each story with a series of learnings and best practice ideas based on analyzing what could prevent these kinds of problems from happening in the future.

What amazed me the most was that like many things, IT Security often comes down to people - their experience and training, motivation and how they are organized and managed - with technology secondary. I'd recommend this book to anyone from systems administrators and those in security management to CIO/CEO's. It's full of practical advice.

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