Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security

by Tony Bradley

Essential Computer Security provides the vast home user and small office computer market with the information they must know in order to understand the risks of computing on the Internet and what they can do to protect themselves.

Tony Bradley is the Guide for the About.com site for Internet Network Security. In his role managing the content for a site that has over 600,000 page views per month and a weekly newsletter with 25,000 subscribers, Tony has learned how to talk to people, everyday people, about computer security. Intended for the security illiterate, Essential Computer Security is a source of jargon-less advice everyone needs to operate their computer securely.

* Written in easy to understand non-technical language that novices can comprehend

* Provides detailed coverage of the essential security subjects that everyone needs to know

* Covers just enough information to educate without being overwhelming

279 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Petalbooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essential Computer Security is easy enough to read for most folks* who have no idea what to do with a computer other than turn it on, launch a browser (a what?) and check their email, or - you guessed it - hop on Facebook. Oversimplification, yes, but if you need/want to get started on the basics then this is a pretty good book for you.

*For example, my parents - but then they'd never read this. They'd call me over to look at their PC the moment anything seems out of the ordinary. And that's just about anything. "Something.... popped up."

[Jigglypuff · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a good primer for the people on the beginner to medium folks who use computer security should pay attention to.