Product Description: Building on the popular Sybex Study Guide approach, CISSP®: Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study Guide, 4th Edition provides 100% coverage of the CISSP Body of Knowledge exam objectives. Find clear and concise information on crucial security topics, practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience, and cutting-edge exam preparation software, including two full-length bonus exams and electronic flashcards. Prepare yourself by reviewing the key exam topics, including access control, application security, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, cryptography; information security and risk management, and security architecture and design telecommunications and network security.
Great resource Nutshell review - This is a very good CISSP review resource and has a very good software testing engine that comes with it. Well written, concise, easy to absorb.
VERY GOOD BOOK -Briefer than Shon Harris Book This book is adequate to pass the CISSP exam --I did, and only like 600 pages to read. I also go the Shon Harris book, but it is tooo loong-- like 1000 pages, and too detailed. I also got the Official ISC2 book to hear it from 'the horse's mouth'. All 3 have CD ROMs with questions. This book is a bit dated now, Shon's book was re-released in late 2006. -- You want to try to really pass the CISSP the first time. Good Luck!!
No Errata Available The author mentions an Errata for corrections to this book. You would think that a book published in 2004 that the author clearly stated various errors would be available at the Sybex site - where it belongs. Unfortunately, no such errata exists and I highly doubt it will ever exist. I also noticed some errors, not enough to worry me though.
The book is a reasonable early read to familiarize yourself with the CISSP exam content. The questions are not up to typical Sybex Certification Book standards - just not well written. Sybex Certification books are normally fantastic and very well edited.
I also read the Shon Harris All-in-One book. The Shon Harris book is extremely well written and has an unbelievable number of really well thought out CISSP questions to practice on. The text in her book is superb - well worth reading the whole book. If I had to choose between the two books - I strongly recommend purchasing the Shon Harris book instead of this book.
If the author can provide a URL for the current errata - please do so for those persons that did purchase your book instead of knocking the critics.
Great overall book, concise and relavent information provided I took this book out from the Air Force Technical Library and found it to be extremely well-written, concise, and an excellent introduction to the field of computer security. When reading this book I felt that the author had an excellent understanding of the material presented and focused on the most important aspects of the subject matter. I have not taken the CISSP yet so I can not comment on how relevant the material is to the exam (as most people know the CISSP is mostly about work experience anyways - not something you learn from a book).
After reading this book I then read the Shon Harris CISSP book I can tell firsthand that this book (Stewart's) is of much better quality. The Shon Harris book shocked me at its lack of structure (many topics are covered multiple times and simple security/network fundamentals are repeated so much that I wanted to scream - literally), extremely simplistic and foolish examples, and very poor quality of writing. After reading both books I have much respect (professionally) for Stewart and very little for Harris.
As for the comments about typos - I did not notice any major typo in the book that took away from the presentation of the material. (So ICMP was misspelled once - who cares?) Overall I thought the quality was much better than the Harris CISSP book (which, itself, has loads of typos and incorrect quiz questions - don't get me started). Overall I would highly recommend this book to others looking to gain a firm understanding and grasp of computer security while preparing for the CISSP exam.
Extremely poor: Author is busy defending himself Everyone, avoid buying this book. There are many other books out there.
As you can see on this page, one of the authors of this book tried to justify having made errors by saying other books have errors too. He also openly admitted having made contextual errors (which is extremely embarrassing) after being pointed out by one of his customers, but the author blasted him away and made no apology about selling incorrect data due to his ignorance and stupidity.
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