Security Analysis Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren E. Buffett

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“The biggest event in the world of investment publishing this year looks certain to be the re-publication of a book that came out almost three-quarters of a century ago.”
(Financial Times )
Product Description

First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd.

As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, “the father of value investing,” have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes.

This new sixth edition, based on the classic 1940 version, is enhanced with 200 additional pages of commentary from some of today’s leading Wall Street money managers. These masters of value investing explain why the principles and techniques of Graham and Dodd are still highly relevant even in today’s vastly different markets. The contributor list includes:

* Seth A. Klarman, president of The Baupost Group, L.L.C. and author of Margin of Safety
* James Grant, founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, general partner of Nippon Partners
* Jeffrey M. Laderman, twenty-five year veteran of BusinessWeek
* Roger Lowenstein, author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When America Aged and Outside Director, Sequoia Fund
* Howard S. Marks, CFA, Chairman and Co-Founder, Oaktree Capital Management L.P.
* J. Ezra Merkin, Managing Partner, Gabriel Capital Group .
* Bruce Berkowitz, Founder, Fairholme Capital Management.
* Glenn H. Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chieftain Capital Management
* Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School
* David Abrams, Managing Member, Abrams Capital

Featuring a foreword by Warren E. Buffett (in which he reveals that he has read the 1940 masterwork “at least four times”), this new edition of Security Analysis will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing—more relevant than ever in the tumultuous 21st century markets.


From the Back Cover

“A roadmap for investing that I have now been following for 57 years.”
—From the foreword by Warren E. Buffett

The 1940 edition of Security Analysis is considered the bible of value investing. McGraw-Hill continues its proud tradition with this new sixth edition that will serve as a touchstone for a new generation of investors.

The leading “Masters” of value investing have updated Graham and Dodd’s classic work with more than 200 pages of new commentary:

* Seth A. Klarman, president of The Baupost Group, L.L.C. and author of Margin of Safety
* James Grant, founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, general partner of Nippon Partners
* Jeffrey M. Laderman, twenty-five year veteran of BusinessWeek
* Roger Lowenstein, author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When America Aged and Outside Director, Sequoia Fund
* Howard S. Marks, CFA, Chairman and Co-Founder, Oaktree Capital Management L.P.
* J. Ezra Merkin, Managing Partner, Gabriel Capital Group .
* Bruce Berkowitz, Founder, Fairholme Capital Management.
* Glenn H. Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chieftain Capital Management
* Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School
* David Abrams, Managing Member, Abrams Capital

The accompanying CD-ROM contains the entire 1940 text.

“Benjamin Graham is the father of investment analysts everywhere, originally sparking the debate for a credential to professionalize the industry which led to the CFA Charter. He transformed the practice of financial analysis from trade to science, starting with his groundbreaking book, Security Analysis, first published in 1934. This edition, with new commentary by some of today’s finest investors, belongs on every investment professional’s shelf.”
—Jeffrey J. Diermeier, CFA, president and CEO, CFA Institute


About the Author

Benjamin Graham is considered to be the founder of value investing and taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

David L. Dodd was a colleague of Graham’s at Columbia University, where he was an assistant professor of finance.

Network Security Bible by Eric Cole

Product Description

A must for working network and security professionals as well as anyone in IS seeking to build competence in the increasingly important field of security
Written by three high-profile experts, including Eric Cole, an ex-CIA security guru who appears regularly on CNN and elsewhere in the media, and Ronald Krutz, a security pioneer who cowrote The CISSP Prep Guide and other security bestsellers
Covers everything from basic security principles and practices to the latest security threats and responses, including proven methods for diagnosing network vulnerabilities and insider secrets for boosting security effectiveness
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #415314 in Books
Published on: 2005-01-13
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
694 pages
Editorial Reviews

Download Description
A must for working network and security professionals as well as anyone in IS seeking to build competence in the increasingly important field of security
Written by three high-profile experts, including Eric Cole, an ex-CIA security guru who appears regularly on CNN and elsewhere in the media, and Ronald Krutz, a security pioneer who cowrote The CISSP Prep Guide and other security bestsellers
Covers everything from basic security principles and practices to the latest security threats and responses, including proven methods for diagnosing network vulnerabilities and insider secrets for boosting security effectiveness

From the Back Cover
If you need a solid foundation in network security, this is it

Here at last is a comprehensive, focused guide that covers network security from applications to zip files. You'll learn network security principles and best practices, how to apply measures appropriate to various systems, how to identify and respond to an intrusion, and how to evaluate your security. You'll even get guidance in making the case for enhanced security to leaders of the organization. Whether you're learning the basics or seeking more detailed knowledge, you'll find this reference invaluable.

Inside, you'll find complete coverage of network security issues
Identify and apply best practices for Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux® systems
Understand the fundamental tenets of information system security, especially confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA)
Set up appropriate security policies and manage implementation
Learn to secure Web browsers, protect corporate portals, and implement secure e-commerce applications
Configure e-mail systems and set up different types of servers for safer access
Choose the best security approach for various network protocols, particularly OSI and TCP
Explore the special security issues of wireless networks
Examine cryptography and steganography and how they can support communications security
Test your system and interpret the results

About the Author
Eric Cole, PhD, has appeared as a security expert on CBS News, 60 Minutes, and CNN Headline News.

Ronald Krutz, PhD, is the founder of the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute Cybersecurity Center.

James W. Conley has been a security officer in the United States Navy and a senior security specialist on CIA development efforts.
Customer Reviews

Network Security Bible
The material nicely complements the network security studies in my Cisco Academy courses. I think it will be a very useful book.

Great Book, But..........
This is a great book; it goes in great detail about security in all aspects of the computer industry. However it lacks one critical aspect, how do I do that? Like all network and computer professionals, I do not know everything, so when you tell me I should do something a certain way I'd hope that you will also tell me how to do it. With this book I found myself saying, maybe they will tell me what to do later, over and over, never happens. If you want to buy a book that's a reference manual, this is the one to get. If you are looking for a "how to" as well as a "what to look for" book, consider looking elsewhere.

Excellent
I have seen Eric Cole numerous times at SANS conferences. His talks are great, and so is this book of his

Designing and Building Enterprise DMZs by Hal Flynn

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This is the only book available on building network DMZs, which are the cornerstone of any good enterprise security configuration. It covers market-leading products from Microsoft, Cisco, and Check Point.

One of the most complicated areas of network technology is designing, planning, implementing, and constantly maintaining a demilitarized zone (DMZ) segment. This book is divided into four logical parts. First the reader will learn the concepts and major design principles of all DMZs. Next the reader will learn how to configure the actual hardware that makes up DMZs for both newly constructed and existing networks. Next, the reader will learn how to securely populate the DMZs with systems and services. The last part of the book deals with troubleshooting, maintaining, testing, and implementing security on the DMZ.

· The only book published on Network DMZs on the components of securing enterprise networks

· This is the only book available on building network DMZs, which are the cornerstone of any good enterprise security configuration. It covers market-leading products from Microsoft, Cisco, and Check Point

· Provides detailed examples for building Enterprise DMZs from the ground up and retro-fitting existing infrastructures
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #648084 in Books
Published on: 2006-09-28
Format: Illustrated
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
656 pages
Customer Reviews

large, but not well executed
i used to install firewalls as a consultant, and i spent a lot of time looking at varius configurations. in the intervening years, i've had the chance to keep current and examine a number of firewall devices for new features, configurations, and also look at some of the changes new technologies (ie WiFi) have brought. all in all, i think i was was pretty well prepared to look at "Designing and Building Enterprise Dmzs" from the angle of someone who's a moderate level firewall user.

i think it's fair to say that i'm disappointed in this new volume from Syngress, for numerous reasons. but before i get to the nits and complaints, i'll start with what i did like.

the book is large, nearly 700 pages of text covering a number of major commercial firewall products, such as checkpoint, nokia, microsoft, cisco, juniper netscreen, and sun. i like th fact that the authors were ambitious (more on that later), you do wind up with a lot of information in a single volume. if you've read firewalls books before, like the canon from oreilly, then you know a lot about firewalls, but you've probably understood that things are changing. new technologies require new solutions, and new offerings have hit the market. firewalls are now more abundant, more feature filled, and this book does a good job of tackling these products with, often, a good attempt at key coverage.

what i also like about this book is that it's not only about technologies, it's about management and about network layouts. this book doesn't pretend that there's one network, but instead shows how various approaches for various needs can be applied. the authors try to show you how each product's features can support those requirements, and what technologies can be used to guard access or secure hosts in a DMZ. this isn't just a book about firewalls and products.

ok, on to the complaints. you know a book is bad when you spot errors such as a bad CIDR specification for RFC 1918 address space (table 1.4), lots of port lists, and a brief primer on "servers" an services buried deep in a chapter on security cisco routers (chapter 11, page 540). i suspect the last point is due to the numerous authors in the book and a failure to find a cohesive structure, but that's a major failing of the book. it doesn't find a consistent voice and doesn't provide consistent coverage of the topics.

some chapters spend more time reviewing marketing materials for products (ie the chapter on juniper netscreen devices, chapter 9) than on getting down to a real feature comparison. this is a real failure of this book. the authors have a chance to cover all major commercial firewalls out there in a clear and unified way, taking an approach that can unify solutions across all, and haven't done so. you wind up with inconsistent coverage and have difficulty in finding the same information in any of the chapters. it's very tough to have multiple authors writing a book, but the editors should have budgeted time to provide a cohesive voice or enforced coverage standards. the reader would have benefitted dramatically for that.

as is often the case with syngress books, the screenshots are too often poorly done. again, this seems to be a function of the chapter and, i'm presuming, the author (based on their stated strengths in the intro to the book). the chapters using web-based and UNIX tools are often filled with poor quality, full screen screenshots that are illegible due to the scaling. the chapters on windows-based tools often have only a small window as a screenshot, enabling better legibility. care needs to be taken for these sorts of things.

the quality of the writing is ok, but it could be better overall. again, a function of the authors, i think, and not a strong editing job. often the writing is not very clear or well organized, and overall the book suffers for it. there's some good info in here, but it's buried under unclear and poorly organized text.

you should look over this book carefully if you're thinking about buying it. this will probably target people in large, heterogeneous environments or people studying for exams. i doubt someone will have all of these technologies in their production environment. however, if you want to see a lot of different firewalls compared, this is worth looking at, but be cautious about buying it.