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Maximum Mac OS X Security

by John Ray, William Ray, Joan Ray

While Mac OS X is becoming more and more stable with each release, its UNIX/BSD underpinnings have security implications that ordinary Mac users have never before been faced with. Mac OS X can be used as both a powerful Internet server, or, in the wrong hands, a very powerful attack launch point.
      Yet most Mac OS X books are generally quite simplistic -- with the exception of the author's Mac OS X Unleashed, the first book to address OS X's underlying BSD subsystem.
      Maximum Mac OS X Security takes a similar UNIX-oriented approach, going into significantly greater depth on OS X security topics:

• Setup basics, including Airport and network topology security.
• User administration and resource management with NetInfo.
• Types of attacks, how attacks work, and how to stop them.
• Network service security, such as e-mail, Web, and file sharing.
• Intrusion prevention and detection, and hands-on detection tools.

About the Author
      John Ray is an award-winning developer and technology consultant with more than 17 years of programming and network administration experience. He has worked on projects for the FCC, The Ohio State University, Xerox, and the State of Florida, as well as serving as IT Director for a Columbus, Ohiobased design and application development company. John currently serves as Senior System Developer/Engineer for The Ohio State University Extension and provides network security and intrusion.

Maximum Mac OS X Security
by John Ray, William Ray, Joan Ray - List Price: $44.99, Price: $31.49 You Save: $13.50 (30%) Paperback: 768 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.75 x 9.16 x 7.38, Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (May 13, 2003)

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