[TUHS] Off topic: Books on Unix security?

[Grant Taylor via TUHS]

On 5/2/25 7:21 AM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> 1. Practical UNIX & Internet Security, 3rd edition, by Simson 
> Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, and Alan Schwartz, O’Reilly & Associates, 
> Sebastopol, CA, USA, 2003. ISBN-10: 0-596-00323-4, ISBN-13: 
> 978-0596003234.
...
> One of my reviewers asked if these weren't "dusty references".  So, 
> before I just refer to them as "classics", can anyone recommend more 
> recent books?  Feel free to answer in private.

Having read (most of) Practical UNIX & Internet Security, 3rd edition, 
and other similar texts...

I've come to the realization that we as an industry haven't really moved 
beyond all of the problems taught to us in the '90s.  It's really 
amazing to me how much of the advice given in those "classic" tombs is 
still as germane today as it was 30 years ago.

Sure, some things have fallen off the bottom.  But mostly, we've just 
added things on top.

Fundamentals may get old, but they usually don't become wrong.



-- 
Grant. . . .