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CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fifth Edition |  | Author: Shon Harris
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book
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Pages: 1216
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Product Description
Get complete coverage of the latest release of the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam inside this comprehensive, fully updated resource. Written by the leading expert in IT security certification and training, this authoritative guide covers all 10 CISSP exam domains developed by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2). You'll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations. Designed to help you pass the CISSP exam with ease, this definitive volume also serves as an essential on-the-job reference. COVERS ALL 10 CISSP DOMAINS: - Information security and risk management
- Access control
- Security architecture and design
- Physical and environmental security
- Telecommunications and network security
- Cryptography
- Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
- Legal regulations, compliance, and investigations
- Application security
- Operations security
THE CD-ROM FEATURES: - Hundreds of practice exam questions
- Video training excerpt from the author
- E-book
Shon Harris, CISSP, is a security consultant, a former member of the Information Warfare unit in the Air Force, and a contributing writer to Information Security Magazine and Windows 2000 Magazine. She is the author of the previous editions of this book.
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 Shon Harris, CISSP AIO 5th Edition - Great Buy! January 30, 2010
Brian Anderson (US Armed Forces)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I find this book to be very well written and contains alot of updated materials. I was getting a bit upset that I couldnt find a updated reference material until I found out about this edition. I would recommend this book to anyone who is attempting to get their CISSP. I've just started reading the book today and managed to get to Chapter 3. This book is very well written, and the cd contains multiple PDF's, that I use to read on my cell phone. I also like how the PDF's are broken down into chapters. It helps set small goals and allows you to feel accomplished after reading a 100+ page chapter!
The Gold Standard for CISSP January 30, 2010
C. W. Thompson (Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is the absolute gold standard, the one-stop shopping reference for CISSP certification! The price is economical enough to highlight its passages and put notes in its margins. It is the fifty-dollar solution to the horrifically expensive test.
Every IT professional I met, who passed the CISSP test the FIRST time, credits the Shon Harris CISSP manual.
It is the preferred reference for corporations to hand out free to thier employees.
Edition comparison February 24, 2010
Old Timer
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought the third edition of this book in October 2009 to prepare for the exam. The reason for buying that instead of this fifth edition is obvious. It cost me only $2.95 plus $4.00 shipping. I was a little worry at the beginning because of the new material that was added since 2005. However, I though I can supplement with material in the internet. At the end, I don't have the time because the exam was on January 16, 2010 which gave me less than 4 months. During the exam, I did not see anything that I have not seen in the third edition. If you know something about the exam, you know they are not going to ask you directly about a concept or technology. So, you really have to understand the material. Since CISSP is more about principle and concept and less about specific technology, using a third or fifth edition is not going to make a big different. I passed the exam in one shot. Don't get me wrong. Getting the latest and the greatest is always good and I will consider getting the fifth in the near future when I need to brush up the knowledge. But if you want to save a little of money, consider getting the fourth or the third.
CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fifth Edition March 4, 2010
David Mayadas (Melbourne, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book containing a wealth of information - breath and depth - on matters relating to Information Security.
Its also easy to read!
 Harris' poor writing style February 28, 2010
Tess (California)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I got the All in One CISSP to study for the exam based on the reviews of other readers. I have to say that I'm dismayed by the poor writing style of the author, Shon Harris, and if I had it to do over again, I'd get a different study guide.
In the book, Ms. Harris seems to delight in inserting attempts at jokes throughout the text. Each major section opens with a nonsensical one liner, such as "I want my training to have a lot of pictures and pop-up books" or to open a section on the security administrator role, "Hey, I have administrator rights! Response: Great, you're a security administrator. I quit."
In a section on managing profiles, she enumerates the information about a user that is captured as "e-mail address, home address, phone number, panty size, and so on".
Routinely throughout the text, the roles that constitute many business organizations are treated with barely veiled contempt. I also found a number of statements that make leaps of logic as if they're just blurted out in the belief that anyone can see they make sense. The author is also a fan of acronyms which go unexplained.
I have read many professional books and I've never come across a book like this. At least one-third of the text could be eliminated by a decent editor. I doubt there was one for this book.
In short, I find the inane jokes to be distracting at best. What's difficult to read around is the lack of regard for professional roles, the continual portrayal of employees as villains (which is why, in her discussions of organizational life cycles, they're always fired), and her very poor writing style.
I hope that, if Ms. Harris writes again, she will first complete a couple of semesters of a college writing class.
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