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Hardening Network Security
by John Mallery, Jason Zann, Patrick Kelly, Wesley Noonan, Eric S. Seagren, Paul Love, Rob Kraft, Mark O'Neill, Robert McMullin
from McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Thorough overview of security improvement, but beware some details 
As a security consultant I am sometimes asked for reference books for new security managers. These individuals need help bringing their enterprise under control. Hardening Network Security is a good book for this sort of problem, although it is important to recognize a few technical errors outlined below.
My favorite part of the book is Ch 1 ("Do these seven things before you do anything else"). The seven are (1) change default account settings; (2) use administrator accounts for administrator tasks... more info
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Common sense advice 
This book is a useful compilation of common sense, practical security recommendations and procedures for the everyday manager or administrator. It is written in a way that covers a variety of critical topics without getting overly technical or talking of the sake of talking.
There are frequent references to additional resources you can use to drill down in any of the topic areas. The use of several authors to share their stronger areas makes this a better resource. The book does a good job of... more info
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Good book with solid topic coverage
This book has some really good coverage. A lot of it is kindof high level, but good information none the less. This would be an ideal book for a technical manager to gain a broad understanding of the covered topics.
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