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 | | The CISSP Prep Guide: Mastering the CISSP and ISSEP Exams, Second Edition by Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines ISBN-10: 9780764559150 ISBN-10: 0-7645-5915-X ISBN-13: 9780764559150 ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-5915-0 Paperback 2004-04-30 Wiley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description * This updated bestseller features new, more focused review material for the leading computer security certification-the Certified Information Systems Security Professional, or CISSP * The first book on the market to offer comprehensive review material for the Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) subject concentration, a new CISSP credential that's now required for employees and contractors of the National Security Agency (NSA) and will likely be adopted soon by the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and Homeland Security Department * The number of CISSPs is expected to grow by fifty percent in 2004 * The CD-ROM includes the Boson-powered interactive test engine practice sets for CISSP and ISSEP | ||
Amazon.com Review The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) rating is difficult to earn and rare in the marketplace, which means you're a valuable commodity if you've proven your skills by passing the exam. The CISSP Prep Guide, one of only a handful of books on its subject, does a good job of giving readers a feel for the scope of the test and the style of its questions. It's ideal for use either as a preliminary survey of the CISSP subject areas (the test's publisher and the authors of this book call them "domains") for relative newcomers to computer security, or as a pure study guide to help more experienced professionals zero in on the weak spots in their knowledge. Don't expect to do well on the CISSP exam having only read this book. You'll want to have some practical experience and some specialized reading under your belt. Ronald Krutz and Russell Vines are good writers and fine teachers; they explain the wide-ranging CISSP domains (which have to do with everything from cryptographic algorithms to fire-suppression techniques to legal principles). They take care to explain potentially unfamiliar terms--there's a good glossary in the back of this book--and employ conceptual diagrams well. However, the answer keys for the sample questions that conclude each chapter aren't annotated and some readers will wish for more references to specialized sources. --David Wall Topics covered: The subjects covered by the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam published by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, including cryptography, access control, security policy, legal matters, and the physical safety of information, equipment, and people. | ||
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Average Nutshell review - An average review book for the CISSP exam. There are better resources available. | ||
This is the book that will get you pass the CISSP exam! I used the CISSP for Dummies as a first book to get me in the mode and hit this book hard over and over again. It helped me to pass the test on my first try. It has enough details and excellent test questions. I'm not sure about the ISSEP parts as I did not go through it. At $6.99 when I bought it compared to the $26.99 I paid for the Dummies book, this is the best bang for the buck in studying for the exam, no question about that. | ||
Gooddish study guide for this certification Good points: +Surveys of all areas of the CISSP exam. +Each area covered in detail with many examples. +Well written in the usual sober style of Wiley guides. +Good layout, easy on the eyes and with lots of margin space for notes. Easier to read than the official (ISC)2 guide. +CD gives over 300 practice questions. Bad points: -Typos, one every ten pages or so. -Some mistakes, or at least areas where I disagreed. (See below for an example.) -Out of date. (That's not really the author's fault but that's Reality, accept it, what with revolutions happening every six months...) One example of a disagreement came in a question where we were asked to choose which of four methods was NOT a good way of wiping data from a diskette. I chose "writing data to the diskette several times" but the book gave the correct answer as "formatting the diskette seven times". I disagree. At my office before disgarding a PC, IT wipes the hard drive. They reformat the drive once then they overwrite the entire hard disk several times with random sequences of bytes. Such software is easy to find on the internet and the method is pretty standard. While there are many challenging concepts and more than a few insights especially in areas where I don't have much experience, I find much to be just plain wrong or at best naive. One big problem is (ISC)2 itself: what you need to know to get their accreditation is wrong. The above disagreement is one example, but there are more: (ISC)2 thinks software piracy is like stealing anything else, when in fact the status of intellectual property is not yet well defined. Verdict: if you need to take the CISSP accreditation get this book along with the official (ISC)2 study guide, otherwise don't. Vincent Poirier, Tokyo Afterword: I underwent the exam last March and passed. I can't talk about the exam's content (as part of the agreement one signs upon taking the exam) but I will make one positive comment: the questions were more relevant and less naive than the study material had led me to expect. VP, Dublin | ||
Not bad, but the "Official" study guide is better IMO This book is ok, but I think the book sold by ISC2 is much better. I only used this as a "supplement" to the official guide. There are so many CISSP products on the market and I think most of them are BS (i.e. Shon Harris' $1000 review product). Maybe if you know nothing about security and have the choice of a $4,000 boot camp and the Shon Harris $1,000 package, otherwise, get the official guide (about $60) and spend some time reading it. It comes with practice tests in the back and a small test per chapter (most certification books are like this). | ||
Passed my CISSP Test today!! I received notice today that I passed the CISSP test, and this book was the main source I used for studying. It is thorough without giving you extraneous information you don't need for the test. The writing style is adequately pleasant to get through for a technical book. Having the book in PDF form as well was a really helpful plus. Thanks, Ron Krutz! I will add that reading one or two other books at the same time will greatly increase your overall comprehension of the material. This test is not about technical details, but showing that you grasp the underlying big concepts in security. I would study a domain by reading three study guides' chapters on that one domain before moving on to another domain. This gave me a great perspective. Strat | ||