NEW EDITION OF "PRACTICAL UNIX & INTERNET SECURITY" IS ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO
SECURE COMPUTING

SEBASTOPOL, CA--When "Practical UNIX Security" was first published in 1991,
it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host
security, it saved a legion of UNIX system administrators and users from
disaster. With the Internet's explosive growth in the past five years,
UNIX security has become both more important and more complex, for the
Internet is built on UNIX systems.

To help system administrators and users meet the ever-growing challenges of
UNIX security, O'Reilly & Associates has released a second edition of
"Practical UNIX & Internet Security." As the expanded title indicates,
this new edition is a complete rewrite of the original book. It's packed
with twice the pages and covers the features of most "flavors" of UNIX,
including SunOS, Solaris, BSDI, AIX, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Linux, and
others.

"Practical UNIX & Internet Security" thoroughly describes, in readable and
entertaining language, the issues, approaches, and methods for
implementing security. It describes how to set up basic security policies
and procedures to protect a UNIX system, network, and Internet connection
from unauthorized users. The book explains in detail the ways that
intruders can get into a system, as well as how to detect them, clean up
after them, and even prosecute them if they do get in. It's
complete--covering both host and network security--and doesn't require
that the reader be a programmer or a UNIX guru to use it.

Filled with practical scripts, tricks, and warnings, "Practical UNIX &
Internet Security" covers everything a reader needs to know to make a UNIX
system as secure as it possibly can be. In this security-conscious age,
this book is an essential reference for anyone who is responsible for a
UNIX system.

"Practical UNIX & Internet Security" contents include:

> Computer Security Basics: introduction and security policies.
> User Responsibilities: users and their passwords, groups, the
  superuser, the UNIX filesystem, and cryptography.
> System Administrator Responsibilities: backups, defending accounts,
  integrity checking, log files, programmed threats, physical
  security, and personnel security.
> Network and Internet Security: telephone security, UUCP, TCP/IP
  networks, TCP/IP services, WWW, RPC, NIS, NIS+, Kerberos, and NFS.
> Advanced Topics: firewalls, wrappers, proxies, and secure
  programming.
> Handling Security Incidents: discovering a break-in, U.S. law, and
  trust.
> Appendices: UNIX system security checklist, important files, UNIX
  processes, paper and electronic sources, security organizations, and
  table of IP services.

Practical UNIX & Internet Security, 2nd Edition
By Simson Garfinkel & Gene Spafford
2nd Edition April 1996
1004 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-148-8, $39.95

O'Reilly & Associates
103A Morris St., Sebastopol, CA 95472
707/829-0515, Fax 707/829-0104, http://www.ora.com/
 
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