Hi Alex, I am not really the most appropriate person to answer to your questions because I am not an expert. But I am at the beggining of the road as you are, so I know what you mean. My suggestion (I am doing this and I find it pretty useful) is both following as much as I can on the web (Securityfoucus like sources, mailing lists, newsgroups, whatever) and studying on books. My suggestion is to start with TCP/IP (many books on that, I am studying from the RedBook written by IBM, downloadable from their website http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/gg243376.html?Open ); then move toward more security related issues, where the web is a good resource: -http://www.securityfocus.com/ -http://www.cert.org/ -http://www.infosyssec.net/ -http://www.w3.org/Security/ ... and many others I am also reading W. Stallings' book ( http://williamstallings.com/NetSec.html#anchor210193 ) and I find it very interesting.
Hope it helps, Angelo Alex Tarata wrote: > Hey everyone ... The reason i am writing to you people is because you are > the best ... This may sound lame or very newbish for you but HEY we all > start some day ... This is mine =) > > I am just starting to learn about security and implementing it ... I am > working on a small network (2 computers ... One running win2k server one > win2k pro) and i just got a Netgear router that i use for my ADSL > connection > ... > > My questions are : Where do i start learning about security and > implementing > it from basics upwards ? > What would be a good firewall to use? > > > I really appreciate your help ! > Cheers, > > Alex > >
