This guy really nailed the awful (and funny) truth about Bill Clinton, his mendacity and pandering, long before anyone heard of Monica Lewinsky. The book humorously makes it clear Clinton was full of it and himself from the earliest days of his presidency.

I especially like this book because it gives the IT shop and the security professionals lots of ammunition for getting funding and support from the "business" side of the business. Too often, the business executives don't understand the technology in question, and therefore do not comprehend the extent of the threat to the enterprise. Because this book is written for a "high level" business audience, among others, it presents issues like risk assessment and extent of the threat in ways the average businessman can understand. It even has sections like "Gaining Support" meant to help IT get management and funding on its side, without which the most carefully thought out plan isn't going anywhere, given that it's the executives who have the clout to make things happen in an organization!

Any manager who lets his technical people build a security program without the rational kind of road map this book offers is asking to be "owned", that is, to be hacked, his Web site defaced, his firm's data trashed. Never, never wade into the muddy waters of cybersecurity without a good plan.

This book is that plan: risk formulas, the nature of the threats, key tenets of a security program, key steps in constructing one, important policies to have, key steps in formulating a policy, key goals in information security, kinds of architecture to consider, kinds of infrastructure that underlie the program, steps in the life cycle for developing a secure system.

Talk about comprehensive. A great way to introduce yourself to security from a high level view or to start building security for your organization.

Just what the doctor ordered. Finally a clear road map for setting up computer security at a corporation.

Lots of organizations are clueless about what is needed to set up an effective defense against hackers. This book provides the clues, in a clear, jargon-free, and easy-to-understand manner. It lays it all out step by step.

It sketches the nature of the threat hackers pose. Then it tells you, phase by phase, how to put together a security program. It lays out a so-called Policy Framework on which to hang you secure password policy, incident response policy, asset management, vulnerability assessment policy, you name it, along with the technical procedures - tightening up UNIX, getting software patches for Windows XP, etc. - that flesh out the policies. A formula for figuring out risk is offered. There's lots of useful stuff on how computer architecture fits in with security, and how life cycle development should incorporate security into it.

There actually can be a rhyme and a reason to formulating security policies, and this book lays it out.

I found Mr. Moser's book totally unique in a class of its own. This tongue in cheek look at American History pokes fun at the absurdity of today's "politically correct" socialites, but also exposes the awful truth about our own knowledge of American History. Many of us learned our history from high school text books written in the post World War 50's. The class was taught by a teacher whose first name was "Coach". By "rewriting" that history according to today's "political correctness" Ed gives us a humorous glimpse of what the history text books of the future may look like. Worth the $9.00!

Sheer incoherence is the trouble with most specimens of this genre-and now that scads of such books have appeared, it is not pretentious or even inaccurate to use this lit crit term. In a frenzy to get off side-splitting one-liners, the authors slip from one perspective-or notion of what is really real, or method, or principle-to another, gratuitously. Nothing finally adds up. This is a far cry from authentic high satire satire which is exploratory, provocative, and open-ended; whose playfulness and display are means to the end of eliciting thought. Moser's book and its ilk are pure play and display. The package is empty. hence eminently disposable.

A laugh out loud combination of satire, wordplay, and clever twists on familiar Biblical tales, fitted to today's cracked politics.