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Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure Review by F. Yan
This book needs better editing and review
After reading a few chapters of the book, I find this book was not thoroughly edited or reviewed before being published. It is not well structured while it is inconsistent and even self-contradictory.
Take chapter 6 as an example. In terms of bad structure, the overview presented four characteristics about attackers, but in the chapter only two have big headings.
Also, when the four kinds of attacks are discussed, it starts off with a paragraph of short description for each. Then it goes to further not-so-detailed (or even repeated) explanation for each attack. Why can the short description and the not-so-detailed explanation for each attack NOT be combined?
On inconsistency: while there is a tip for a few security countermeasures after discussing coordinated attacks, there are none for the other three kinds of attack.
On self-contradiction: the authors say the greatest threat is internal/disgruntled employees. Then on the following page it mentions disgruntled employees again in a different heading but as the "third" greatest threat.
I am sure the authors are very technically knowledgeable in security as the book provides a lot of security-related materials. However, they need to polish their writing skills so that the next book they write will not be as chaotic as this one.