GAngel wrote: » Well the books showed up today exceptionally fast service. About 550 pages and looks to be a hands on version of security+ (where security+ should be heading) For example there are 30 pages dedicated to installing configuring and using snort as an IDs. It shows creating/testing rulesets. There is ISA server,lamp ipsec,IIS. Seems like a very good read and plenty of hands on for it.Initial impression is impressive. There's even a section on osi and subnetting which is odd but interesting. I'll have to make time to read this sometime next month. I paid $70 for the textbook i think it was on special? $150 is a bit steep for an intro book.