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Summary: Good stuff
Review: Good stuff on PKI: technical and business angles. Compliance was the main reason I took at look at this book, since HIPAA affects us day to day. I did appreciate the introduction to the technology (with technical depth). One thing I did really like it was that (to large degree) the book was vendor neutral. Some of the books through the RSA label have some spin. Definitely worth adding this book to the security collection.
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Summary: More to do with compliance than with PKI
Review: The author seems to have "bought" into Public Key Infrastructure completely. Many chapters have a simliar formula:
1. Explain background on the compliance issue or standard
2. Then explain why PKI is so great and solves a majority of the problems with the particular issue being discussed.
This leaves a bit to be desired in some cases as the compliance-heavy discussions really move past PKI and into extremely detailed market compliance issues. This book will be useful for individuals looking for information having to do with Financial, e-Government, and Health Care compliance issues but not necessarily with PKI implementations for Enterprise organizations.
Rating:
Summary: More to do with compliance than with PKI
Review: The author seems to have "bought" into Public Key Infrastructure completely. Many chapters have a simliar formula:
1. Explain background on the compliance issue or standard
2. Then explain why PKI is so great and solves a majority of the problems with the particular issue being discussed.
This leaves a bit to be desired in some cases as the compliance-heavy discussions really move past PKI and into extremely detailed market compliance issues. This book will be useful for individuals looking for information having to do with Financial, e-Government, and Health Care compliance issues but not necessarily with PKI implementations for Enterprise organizations.
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Summary: Practical and timely book on security
Review: This book covers a good chunk of digital security strategies with a focus on digital certificates (PKI). The first part of the book covers the PKI basics including technical and business topics. The next part of the book goes over the compliance laws (in relevant vertical areas) and how PKI (and compatible technologies) help resolve them. The last part of the book goes over resources and specific products/companies. What I really liked about this book is it focus on how solve real problems such as compliance issues. Plus the case studies and specific vendor references make this is a good book to use for actual implementations. Finally, this is a recent book on PKI and I have not seen too much on this topic as of late. The international coverage in the book also does well to keep the material relevant and current. I would say this book would be ideal for security consultants as well as decision makers doing anything related to digital certificates and/or ecommerce in general.
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