Start securing your network without the cost of a consultant

Tony Howlett has created a tome that is as valuable to the average overworked System Administrator as the Swiss Army knife was to McGyver.

If you want to start securing your servers and your network without spending a lot of money you need to leverage the open source community. In this Practical Guide to Security Applications Tony Howlett introduces us to this large body of work in the public domain and gives us a guided tour of some of its best known tools.

This book isn't going to do your work for you, but it is going to help identify some best-of-breed applications in the open source arena that will assist you in getting your job done. This book is applicable for the novice who wants some help getting their feet wet and is also good as a quick reference for those with some experience.

There are many reasons to add this book to your library at work:

• the identification of both windows and *nix open source applications
• explanations of the different security tools
• step by step installation and implementation of the tools

Although no one book will show you everything that you need to know to secure your network, this one by Howlett will help you to make educated choices about how you want to start monitoring the gates and mitigate the impact of their breach without throwing money at consultants.

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