Network Defense: Fundamentals and Protocols (EC-Council Press) 1st Edition

good review for CND. I work in the SOC and found this info was good. The cost is a bit high. Go used instead to save money.

this book teach you great skills in protecting your Network, I recommend this book and the whole series in order to gain prefect skills, even it is old but if you gain access code you will find a lot of update from the publisher.

Instructors, BEWARE. Please evaluate a review copy before you commit your hapless students to this bundle of misinformation. It appears to have been written by someone who has no personal experience with network hardware and who is merely parroting back information, like a student quoting from notes he copied down from the board but doesn't understand and therefore mischaracterizes.One can't help but speculate that the author bailed out and let "EC-Council" take credit because it would be too embarrassing to have one's name on this unreadable mess. (Was it incompetent editing done by non-native English speakers that turned a merely dull book into one that is now also factually inaccurate and misleading?)While this was copyrighted in 2011, all of the illustrations are from Windows XP. What happened to Vista and Windows 7? There's a photo on page 1-61 of a USB network adapter. No network sockets on your computers, kids? On page 1-42, the label SHOULD say "terminating resistor absorbs signals" but it actually reads "Terminating resistant obsorbs Singals <sic>." (No problem, no one uses the old Ethernet bus topology any more anyway.)In browsing the review copy, we find "optical remanence" and "magnetic remanence" stuck in randomly under the heading "Media Types Used to Connect Networks." A few pages later there's this surrealistic description of coaxial cable: "coaxial cable is a kind of copper wire that consists of a hollow cylindrical conductor that surrounds a single inner wire made up of two conducting elements: 1.) A copper conductor located in the center of the cable. A flexible layer of insulation encases the copper conductor. 2.) A woven copper braid or metallic foil over this insulating material acts both as a second wire ..." The inner wire is NOT, as implied, made up of two additional elements.Next paragraph, we're told that "coaxial cable comes in different sizes. Because of its transmission length and noise-rejection characteristics, the diameter is specified to be 1 cm. This type of coaxial cable is referred to as 'thicknet.' Thicknet cable is easy to install in some situations because of its thickness." Really? (Answer: "no." Thicknet was never easy to install.) Did some publishing rival manage to slip a 1980s manual into these guys' research material?By the way, somebody needs to send a memo to the authorial team: CDs and hard drives are STORAGE media, not NETWORK media.OK, so it may be all wrong, but at least it's incredibly boring, and they don't clutter up the misinformation with examples or practical applications.