Batye reviews Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant

Member Batye agreed to review Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant. Disclosure: The publisher of the book provided a free copy for this review.

This small pocket book is a great resource for IT admins that need to have a quick guide at their fingertips to conquer SQL Server 2012. It’s easy to read and simple to use, whether as a day-to-day manual or a reference guide to Microsoft SQL Server 2012.

I found it had a good balance of both step-by-step implementation and as well as sections with more expanded detail. The thing I really like about this book though was the size. It easily fits in your hand and is a perfect traveling companion. This book was also helpful figuring out a few things I didn’t see in the other reference guides for SQL Server 2012.

The material is covered in a detailed manner that remains pretty easy to digest and absorb on the go. The author, William R. Stanek, is a Microsoft technical guru and is the best of the best in computer writing for a reason.

Overall, he wrote a good book.

Batye reviews Computer Incident Response and Product Security

Member Batye agreed to review Computer Incident Response and Product Security. Disclosure: The publisher of the book provided a free copy for this review.

This is a good little book as a reference when dealing with the after effects and investigation of a security breach in your company’s network. I would recommend this book as a manual for a network security admin or a student in the field of the forensic IT.

The book provides a good overview of the security topic and is up to date. Keep in mind the book is written from the point of view of a Cisco employee; nevertheless, the author gives the reader a manual and practical guide on how to setup and run a security incident response team. The book gives true to life examples and training to help in a job in network security.

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Ed Tittel’s Book Review

Check out Ed Tittel’s quickie book review of Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference over at the Windows Enterprise Desktop blog. As someone who knows Mark Russinovich, the author and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, Tittel has some valuable insight into the book.

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Mark Ayre reviews Securing the Borderless Network

Member MarkAyre agreed to review Securing the Borderless Network: Security for the Web 2.0 World. If you’d like to review a book for the Bookworm Blog, send me an email at Melanie at ITKnowledgeExchange.com to express your interest. Disclosure: The publisher of the book provided a free copy for this review.

Written by an employee of Cisco and published as part of the Cisco Press range it should come as no surprise that the solutions presented in this book to the issues raised are based around Cisco products.

Touching on a number of hot topics, under the umbrella of “The Borderless Network” - which the author later expands on to require “a movement of openness in the Enterprise” - some of the topics covered include the consumerization of IT, cloud computing, identity management and the challenges now and in the future of supporting Generation X/Y employees in the workplace.

Throughout, the author clearly speaks with hands-on experience acquired during the two decades he has spent in the Infosec field and challenges the usefulness of traditional security methods and what he describes as the outdated and increasingly unrealistic “Culture of No.”
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Matt Heusser Reviews Land the Tech Job You Love

Hankering for a good IT-related book to read this summer? Head over to Matt Heusser’s blog, Unchartered Waters, for Part 1 of a two-part review and interview with Andy Lester, author of Land the Tech Job You Love.

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