Defending Your Digital Assets Against Hackers, Crackers, Spies, and Thieves - Softcover

This book discusses how attacks occur and how to stop them before they occur. It shows how to evaluate the network for vlunerablilities and holes and how to plug them, including a detailed discussion of what to do once the network has been attacked and to react.

RSA Press -- RSA is the leading developer of data encryption and cryptography in the US. RSA is synonomous with Security and encryption.
-- Advice from the pros -- This is the book that discusses how attacks occur and how to stop them before they occur! This is of interest to not only the network adminsitrator, but the CIO, LAN Manager, and anyone with valuable data on a network. This is critical information considering:
-- IDC analyst found most attacks (70% !) come from within the company or organization, not from industrial thieves or political activists.
-- No Data is Safe! Everyone from the New York Times, the US Senate, and Large ISP's, to Fortune 500 corporations and even the FBI. 50% of all networks get attacked by hackers (Source: IDC).
-- Administrators usually don't even know they are under attack! Less the 3% of all hacker attacks are even detected and less than 1% are ever reported to the FBI (Source: ComputerWorld Magazine).