BKLTGSDI.RVW 960719 "LAN Times Guide to Security and Data Integrity", Marc Farley/Tom Stearns/Jeffrey Hsu, 1996, 0-07-882166-5, U$29.95 %A Marc Farley %A Tom Stearns %A Jeffrey Hsu %C 300 Water Street, Whitby, Ontario L1N 9B6 %D 1996 %G 0-07-882166-5 %I McGraw-Hill Ryerson/Osborne %O U$29.95 905-430-5000 fax: 905-430-5020 louisea@McGrawHill.ca %P 336 %T "LAN Times Guide to Security and Data Integrity" Now I do agree that backups are important. Always make a backup. Make several backups. Make redundant backups. (There's no such thing, if it saves your data.) Make generational backups. In fact, you should probably go and make a backup right now, and read this review later. Back so soon? OK. Anyway, having said all that, I *still* don't understand why the exhortation to make a backup takes up more than a third of the total space of a book on security. The remaining material is similarly pedestrian, although not unsound. The chapter on viruses is the usual low standard, while the content on encryption is surprisingly good (though not really technical). Users, and particularly network administrators, who add to their security on the basis of this book will not be sorry. They may, however, be unpleasantly surprised at some point in the future. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996 BKLTGSDI.RVW 960719 ============== Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | This message contains not less Institute for rslade@vanisl.decus.ca| than 70% post consumer electrons Research into rslade@vcn.bc.ca | and not less than 80% post User (This space for rent) | harangue opinions. Security Canada V7K 2G6 | Please recycle. Thank you.