UML for the IT Business Analyst: A Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Requirements Gathering

UML for the IT Business Analyst: A Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Requirements Gathering
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Business Analyst

Teaching Collaboration At It's Best

A worthwhile purchase.

Clean, reasonable guide to OO and UML for beginner to medium level BA

The best business analyst book on the market

UML for the IT Business Analyst: A Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Requirements Gathering
Howard Podeswa
Manufacturer: Course Technology PTR
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ASIN: 1592009123

Book Description

The IT Business Analyst is one of the fastest growing roles in the IT industry. Business Analysts are found in almost all large organizations and are important members of any IT team whether in the private or public sector. "UML for the IT Business Analyst" provides a clear, step-by-step guide to how the Business Analyst can perform his or her role using state-of-the-art object-oriented technology. Business analysts are required to understand object-oriented technology although there are currently no other books that address their unique needs as non-programmers using this technology. Assuming no prior knowledge of business analysis, IT, or object-orientation, material is presented in a narrative, chronological, hands-on style using a real-world case study. Upon completion of "UML for the IT Business Analyst," you will have created an actual business requirements document using all of the techniques of object-orientation required of a Business Analyst. "UML for the IT Business Analyst" puts together all of the technology pieces needed to proficiently perform the Business Analyst role.

Customer Reviews:

Business Analyst.......2007-09-16

I have heard about the book from various internet sources for BUSINESS ANALYST and when I read this book, it has a good worth which polishes the real skill the person has as a Business Analyst into the scientific approach of analysis work and clear representation. Thanks.

Teaching Collaboration At It's Best.......2007-09-08

UML for the IT Business Analyst is a great 'field guide' for Business and Systems Analysts at various levels of experience. The key thing I like about the book is that it teaches and also encourages truly "collaborative" working in building a business solution.

Collaborative Working

True collaborative working is something that I have found to be the most commonly missing ingredient on IT projects of all sizes. IT and business-side Analysts need to work with various stakeholders and players of varying levels while attempting to deliver true business solutions. Not an easy task, but from my years of experience in the field as a Business Architect I can testify that it is indeed possible.

This book goes a long way to showing you how.

UML for the IT Business Analyst is a resource that provides Business and Systems Analysts with tools and templates for success. You can pick the section that applies to your circumstances, your project or your experience level and go and implement it.

Gets a thumbs up from me 'Bayo Akinola-Odusola any day...and I don't give thumbs up that easily!

A worthwhile purchase........2007-06-27

A very informative and practical book. Definitely a worthwhile purchase that offers some practical guidance on analysis & requirements gathering using UML. The only short coming is that there could have been more examples provided.

Clean, reasonable guide to OO and UML for beginner to medium level BA.......2007-02-02

There are so many opinions about how UML should be used and none can claim universal application. It is not only the complexity of UML and OO methodologies, but the variety of software tools that support these methods and then you have to deal with an infinite variety of real life situations and people. At the end of the day, a BA must write documentation and communicate findings, outcome and models to stakeholders, users, developers, architects and sometimes to third parties involved in the project. Every single person has a different view, companies have different document templates and actors have different education and skills. How can you write a book to teach UML and make anyone happy? You can't. So, you have to get something from every book you read that suits you, your training and the project methodology used in your business.

I think that Howard manages to walk you through the complexity of all this, recognising the inherent limitations that I listed above and present a framework that you can use to expand your horizons. The author is reasonably disciplined about the UML standard, so this is not a popular book for, say, accountants or florists that want to know about UML. Another positive point of this book is that you are provided with documentation templates that you can use straight away to write business requirements for your next project. Additionally, the author combines the description of UML constructs with an induction into OO methodology. Some authors fail to make this connection between the standard and the work methodology.

The book is written by using a real life project large enough to cover almost every aspect of UML. Howard is quite practical, whenever he feels that in practice some tools are not widely used, he will say so and avoid spending too much time on something just to show you how much he knows. The examples are simplified to keep the size of the book at a sane level. The depth of the book is adjusted so that beginners are not intimidated by the complex concepts, especially when it comes to discuss static modelling.

The last section of the book talks about testing and spends sufficient on explaining the foundation of structured test methodology. Testing is becoming more and more specialised work and progressively fewer business analysts do both business requirements and test implementation. However, it is important to connect these two activities, and Howard does that very well. Testing should be based on business requirements and verify that the requirements are fulfilled.

One not so positive comment that I would make about the book, is that it mixes too much the role of the business analyst and system analysts. I believe that he should have put more emphasis on separating the roles, because they require distinct set of skills. Also he should have made the reader aware that the project management methodology has an impact on the way the business analyst works. The subject of project management is not discussed very much here. If you work in a large organisation this is an important factor to consider. On the book cover the claim is that you will learn how to use IBM Rational Rose. I think that this is a little bit exaggerated. Overall this is a clean, nice and useful book, if you fall in the right category.

The best business analyst book on the market.......2007-01-11

This book has industrial standard templates for each phase of the project. - Both the templates and steps are easy to follow.

InsideScoop to Chartered Financial Analyst Level I: Candidate's Guide to CFA Level I Learning Outcome Statements (with CD Exam)

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InsideScoop to Chartered Financial Analyst Level I: Candidate's Guide to CFA Level I Learning Outcome Statements (with CD Exam)
David Stewart
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ASIN: 1590959000

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Part of the InsideScoop Financial Series, this new Self Help and Interactive Exam Study Aid with CD-ROM Practice testing material is now available for candidate's preparing to sit for CFA Level I Certification. The book covers the information associated with each of the 18 exam topics in detail and includes chapters on Ethical & Professional Standards, Economics, Quantitative Methods, Financial Statement, Markets and Instruments, Asset Valuation, and Portfolio Management.

Using the book will help readers determine if they're ready for the CFA Level I exam. Within each unit are loads of author scoops describing each exam topic, along with additional exam-taking tips, tricks, hints, and test traps. The overall summary at the end of the book provides a review of essential exam-related terms and concepts that will prove invaluable just before taking the exam. Also included are helpful tips and time management techniques that will alleviate pre-exam jitters and put you in control.

Accompanying the book is our exclusive CD-ROM test engine that creates randomized simulated exams drawn from a database of 850 sample exam questions. The CD-Rom provided in the guide includes an assessment quizzer to measure comprehension of each topic. Written to mimic the real exam, you also get the LOS answers plus a detailed scoring summery showing test results by exam topic. The engine also keeps a history of test questions so you can monitor your progress toward expertise in each topic.

This book is divided into Study Sessions (1 - 18), Appendix A (Exhibits 1 - 3) and a Glossary of Financial Terminology in question format. Appendix A is a collection of Exhibits and flow charts for condensed reference and review.

The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)
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Transformations at Mid-Life

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Vancouver in midlife ? ...

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The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)
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Author James Hollis's eloquent reading provides the listener with an accessible and yet profound understanding of a universal condition—or what is commonly referred to as the Mid-life crisis. The book shows how we may travel this Middle Passage consciously, thereby rendering our lives more meaningful and the second half of life immeasurably richer.

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Transformations at Mid-Life.......2007-09-24

This book was recommended by a friend who read it when she was going through her own mid-life passage. I found it extremely helpful and continue to use it as a reminder to myself when I am feeling like I 'm floating in outer space. James Hollis writes very succinctly, in Jungian terms, what takes place in the psyche of a person in the second half of life. I found it comforting, useful, and true for me. I highly reommend it to anyone who needs a light of hope and a map through the terrain of mid-life transformations.

Hollis Does A Helluva Job With This One.......2007-06-17

I have had the priviledge of sitting through hours of James Hollis' lectures at Houston's Jung Center. His writing style is very compact but pacts a punch (Hemingway for Jungian Wanderers, if you will). He takes the notion of the "mid-life crisis" to the appropriate realm of "mid-life transformation" by illustrating the WHY of the formerly named "crisis". Taking his words (and always keeping in mind TS Eliot's "The Wasteland") will help any reader better understand why they feel "unfullfilled". His book will also give them tools to direct them back to that path of command/control of their own lives. Additionally arming them with the notion that there will be plenty more goofy (read unconscious) activities with which to deal in the future.

This book is a tool and a useful tool indeed.

Vancouver in midlife ? ..........2005-09-30

An amazing number of people in Vancouver are reviewing midlife crisis books ... is that city going through it's own midlife crisis ?

This book is perhaps the best one out there. The reasons are many as others have pointed out, but in my estimation is this: Hollis does not jump into the mechanics of the midlife period, in fact this is not the main emphasis at all. He starts with an in-depth retrospective on childhood and does a thourough analysis of our early years, then guides us into our present state and our future.

Highly recommended, yes.

Recommended Challenge for Greater consciousness & Individuation at Midlife.......2005-08-14

The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts; 59 by James Hollis, PhD was published in 1993 and is his first contribution to the series.

The "Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts" is a wonderful series published by Inner City Books with Daryl Sharp as founder and chief editor (himself an accomplished Jungian Analyst and writer). Marie-Louise von Franz is their Honorary Patron with 9 of her classic titles in the offerings. The publisher's charter was "...founded in 1980 to promote the understanding and practical application of the work of C.G. Jung. " Since then they've published over 110 titles in this series with other prolific Jungian authors such as Barbara Hannah, Edward Edinger, and Marion Woodman to name a few. Hollis is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst practicing out of Texas where he is also the Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston. He's contributed 8 titles to the Studies in Jungian Psychology series himself. His most recent book (from a different publisher) titled: "Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life - How to Finally, Really Grow Up" is receiving critical acclaim as well. Incidentally, the author and I recently shared some correspondence and I found him to be warm, helpful, responsive and thoughtful.

The audio version of The Middle Passage is unabridged on 4 CD's with the author narrating in a calm, clear, and agreeable tone of voice with an elegant economy and effectiveness of words. I own a treasured, well-worn print copy of the 128-page book that is liberally underlined, dog-eared, and grossly highlighted.

Whether reading the book or listening to the author narrate, I am nearly overwhelmed at the compactness of meaning in his tightly composed sentences. This sense of being overwhelmed is most assuredly not a bad thing - it's a welcome invitation for re-listening to the audio book during my daily commute (a 95 mile round trip to work and home in southern California traffic gives nearly two hours of listening time!). Plus I get opportunities to reread the printed book as time permits as I have a new addition to the family - this equates to sleepless nights with our newborn baby boy...

Anyhow, it's a real pleasure opening this book and unpacking the riches within - and treasures they are! I reach into the bag and there are the gems, the gold in the content - but it's packed so tightly as to need diligent & mindful mining. I unpack the words, the sentences, and paragraphs and air them out, taking the concepts down different avenues of thought to glean new insights into the character of my self. I can't tell you the number times I've had "AHA!" moments - or the sublime experience where some subtle material gestated over time, gelling into meaningful mini-epiphanies. I can't tell you because it won't stop! A most gratifying experience!

I have only one minor criticism of this great contribution to Jungian analysis/literature. I can imagine some people possibly being turned off by the author's complex wording which might appear a bit pedantic on the surface. Some of the arguably abstract/esoteric language is not common to a layman's lexis yet they pose a rewarding challenge for the diligent reader. Here's a sample of random rarified words & phrases for example: existential angst, imagos, ineluctable dialectic, the modern Zeitgeist, politic real, portmanteau and (ready?) Jung's awesome word Auseinandersetzung. I've had to grant myself a little time adjusting to his rich vocabulary. Nevertheless it is a cogent, logical and lucid narrative where Hollis carefully defines his terms in the context of recognized Jungian terminology.

Hollis uses an abundance of prominent literary and historical figures including Christ, Dante, Stephen Dunn, T.S. Eliot, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Dylan Thomas, St. Thomas, Thoreau, Yeats, and C.G. Jung is well deployed throughout the text.

A two-part bibliography gives a listing of select publications segregated by major categories such as: On Midlife, On Women, On Men, On Relationship, Typology, and Inner Work. The other half is a General Bibliography providing a comprehensive list of his sources cited. It also has a pretty good index. Generous footnotes throughout the pages helpfully clarify certain points and direct the reader to relevant sources.

Characteristic of Hollis' Socratic bent, "Who am I apart from the roles I have played?" (from the preface) is the first of many questions posed in Middle Passage. The following passages from the preface effectively capture critical sentiment worth reflection: "Many of us pass through life as if it were a novel. We pass from page to page passively, assuming the author will tell us on the last page what it was all about...on the last page we die, with or without illumination." Hollis tells us "The invitation of the Middle passage is to become conscious, accept responsibility for the rest of the pages and risk the largeness of life to which we are summoned."

In the first chapter, "The Provisional Personality", he uses the language of Jungian principles to reveal the genesis and evolution of childhood wounding resulting from internalized interpretations of adult conflict (particularly with respect to parental and cultural influences) and the subsequent development of unconscious complexes. He tells us "...the person one has been is to be replaced by the person to be...One is summoned, psychologically, to die unto the old self so that the new might be born." He concludes the chapter with "...the Middle Passage represents a summons from within to move from the provisional life to true adulthood, from the false self to authenticity."

Making a comprehensive review of the rest of the book would prove too lengthy; however I've listed the remaining chapters below and will conclude with a review of one last chapter after the list:

Chapter 2 - The Advent of the Middle Passage
Tectonic Pressures and Seismic Intimations
A New Kind of Thinking
Changes in Identity
Withdrawal of Projections
Changes in the Body and Sense of Time
The Diminution of Hope
The Experience of Neurosis

Chapter 3: The Turn Within
The Persona-Shadow Dialogue
Relationship Problems
Midlife Affairs
From Child to Parent to Child
The World of Work: Job Versus Vocation
Emergence of the Inferior Function
Shadow Invasions

Chapter 4: Case Studies in Literature (see below)
Chapter 5: Individuation: Jung's Myth for Our Time

Chapter 6: On the High Seas and Alone
From Loneliness to Solitude
Connecting with the Lost Child
The Passionate Life
The Swamplands of the Soul
The Great Dialectic
Momento Mori
This Luminous Pause

One chapter in particular has grown on me: in Case Studies in Literature Hollis explores and illuminates new perspectives into the shadow with fascinating analysis of some classic, well recognized literary works. In Goethe's Faust, "Mephistopheles describes the shadow as that part of the whole, neglected and suppressed, which is necessary for the dialectic that ultimately brings wholeness." And for our protagonist, "The central encounter which Faust suffers is the overdue meeting with his anima..." Next, we're treated to obvious projections Flaubert's Madame Bovary. The resulting sense of urgency from Faust and Emma's unlived lives causes them to make bad tragically bad choices. "They project their inner contrasexual onto an outer person, not realizing that what they seek is ultimately within."

Dostoevsky's Underground Man "...takes us into the belly of the beast." and "...represents a profoundly searing encounter with the shadow." making conscious "...what all of us do in the first adulthood, namely, react to life's wounds. We build a set of wound-based behaviors and live out our handicapped version with rationalizations and self-justification."

Works from three American poets, Hugo Richard, Theodore Roethke, and Diane Wakoski are shared representing "...self-conscious efforts to rework one's personal myth." and identify our biographies as "...traps, deceptive enticements that freeze us in the seemingly facticity of the past, wound-identified and creatures of fate."

I end this quote-labored review with an invitation Hollis gives at the end of the same chapter, "In the secret club of the Middle Passage, there is an invitation for greater consciousness and an enlarged capacity for choice. With greater consciousness comes a greater opportunity for forgiveness of others and of ourselves, and, with forgiveness, release from the past." Finally, a grand imperative: "We must address the making of our myths more consciously or we shall never be more than the sum of what has happened to us."

I highly recommended this book for the challenge it offers the welcoming soul.

IndiAndy

Excellent!.......2005-08-09

I found this book while ordering the recently-released "Finding Meaning in the Second-Half of Life" (which I haven't read yet). I turned 50 in June, and find it (being 50) more difficult than I ever anticipated. "The Middle Passage" describes everything I've been feeling, explains why mid-life can be difficult, and offers excellent insight into coping with a "mid-life crisis." I highly recommend this book for anyone who is struggling to find a sense of meaning as they move into and past their 40's.

Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)

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Painful but necessary reading
Under Saturn's Shadow
Understanding and appreciating men
Short, hard hitting, and to the point
One of the best books i ever read

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Painful but necessary reading .......2007-08-28

I am total James Hollis fan. I have now read four of his books and have found them liberating. Visit his website for a clue for why he is so effective - he is not 30 years of age with limited life experience. He commenced his training only after he completed another successful career in academia. Most would have been content to have lived the life he already had. He has the life skills and experience to help us all illuminate our lives.

The book concerns the burden of being a man, exposing some of the constricting myths that have made manhood so painful. It is a book about men but not necessarily only for men - my wife read it too and found it very moving. It is enriched by the signficant store of Hollis reading in poetry and literature. It is not an easy fix and like anything worthwhile requires your concentrated attention. Further, it is only a beginning rather than an end. Hollis says it himself when he quotes somewhere Jung's description of the psychoanalytical endeavour - it can provide insight but then there must come endurance and courage. You can have a vision of what you would like to be but then comes the fidelity to make that vision a reality.

I would recommend this book highly.

Rob

Under Saturn's Shadow.......2007-02-19

Hollis hits the nail on the head. I found this book to be accurate on many levels and I will benefit from it the rest of my life. How I view my relationship with my father has changed and how I interact with other men will never be the same. This should be required reading for fathers of boys.

Understanding and appreciating men.......2006-10-12

Absolute must reading for anyone who wants to understand the meaning behind what boys and men do and the reason behind their behaviors. A must read for wives and mothers.

Short, hard hitting, and to the point.......2006-08-11

This book is roughly 135 pages. It covers a wide range of relatively complex ideas presented in a clear, well organized manner. Ever notice that when someone really understands something they don't need 300 pages to explain it?

This book challenged many of my ideas about my relationships with parents, my ex-wife, and my life choices (since childhood... I'm 36). I recommend it to anyone who is in this field or just on their own personal journey to have a greater understanding of men and their wounds / healing...

Enjoy

One of the best books i ever read.......2006-01-19

Between an ex husband that dove off the deep end and a son living with two strong women and without an appropriate father figure, I have been wondering both what makes men snap like that, and what consequence living without a father might have on my son. How to be a mother and a father to him, how not to hurt my baby in the way I see people around me, and myself, hurting and thus hurting others. I believe every mother and father should read this. It truly spoke to me, and I would not put it down until I was done with it some time early this morning. Written in a language everyone can understand.
Collected exerpts, almost quoted, that I found most enlightening:
Greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of the parent. So each man must examine, without the motive to judge, where his father's wounds were passed on to him. Either he finds himself repeating his father's patterns or living in reaction to them - in both cases a prisoner. (..)
When we ask such questions, father becomes more a man like us, a brother who has suffered the same ordeal. If we are caught up in hate we stay bound to that which wounds us. (..)
We all develop a provisional personality in reaction to childhood experience. We set off into life with this false self and make choices that further estrange us, and by midlife we suffer growing split between the asquired personality and the natural self. (..)
The crux of the middle passage is the requirement that a man (AND A WOMAN, I WOULD ADD!), whatever his reason or station, pull out of his reflexive behaviors and attitudes, radicallyreexamine his life, and risk living out the thunderous imperatives of his soul. (..)
Being a man (AGAIN, I WOULD SAY NOT ONLY A MAN) means knowing what you want and then mobilizing the inner resources to achieve it. It is extraordinarily difficult to know what one wants. How does one separate the inner truth from personal complexes and cultural directives? (..)
Most men (AND INCREASING NUMBER OF WOMEN WHO LIVE AND SWIM IN GUY'S WORLD) use their job to validate themselves, but they do not feel valued even when they have achieved success. (..)
No man may leave home or be in the world without suffering grievous wounds to body and soul. He must learn to say "I am not my wound or my defense against the world. I am my journey".

Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)

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Deep, Poignant, Insightful and meaningful
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" The women who is a virgin, one in herself, does what she does not for power or out of the desire to please, but because what she does is true." Here is writing with a thinking heart, blending art, literature, religion and extensive case material. Continues the author's pioneering work on the feminine in both women and men.

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Deep, Poignant, Insightful and meaningful.......2004-12-02

I tend to get attracted by a sort of synchronicity or intuitive feeling to certain books that resonate with the current process of what I call my spiritual journey. This book is one of those I would cherish and remember, and refer to, and meditate upon it. It is not only writen by someone deeply in touch with psychological understanding but also by a person inmersed consciously on her spiritual path, or inner journey towards enlightnement or liberation or full awakening of consciousness as you wish to name this subtile and many times confusing path.
Marion Woodman had a sort of blockage on her path of writing this book and she finally realized that she was feeling somewhow affraid of not being able to unite her writing with feeling and her writing with psychological knowledge and insight. But she does a wonderful work by not only helping us with her deep understanding of the Psyche and its own language, but also, by opening her own heart and her own wounds to all of us, like she does in poignant chapter 7.
This book has helped me find and recognise more subtile layers of aspects of myself that needed to be aknowledged and liberated. Althought we sometimes seem to have accomplished major inner work, there's many times subtilities left that are blocking the way to integrity, wholeness, hapiness. This book came when I was uncovering unconscious aspects of my mother and my father's own wounds and how I had absorbed them as baby and child, integrating them in myself in a confusing mixture that didn't allow me to heal it because I couldnt find their root and thus I didn't understand their effect on me.
This whole summer's been an intense trip to the Underworld and books that also helped me where: The Dark Moon Goddess by Demetra George and Clarissa Pinkola Estés,Women Who Run With Wolves. Also, Anatomy of the Psyche by Edward Edinger since it explains the alchemical operations in terms of psychological processes and for some reason or other, I do resonate to this language and inner transformation process...

So good I stayed home to read it for 4 days.......1999-12-17

This book spoke directly to me. I read it first in the mid 1980's, so much of the contents is now irretrievable, but I wanted to let other shoppers know how much this book helped me. I am so happy to find it again.

Network Intrusion Detection: An Analyst's Handbook (2nd Edition)

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A well done work
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Many elements are valid for beginners, but are othewise outdated
Excellent book at TCP/IP analysis

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A collection of after-action reports on a variety of network attacks, Network Intrusion Detection enables you to learn from others' mistakes as you endeavor to protect your networks from intrusion. Authors Stephen Northcutt and Judy Novak document real attacks on systems, and highlight characteristics that you--you being a network communications analyst or security specialist--can look for on your own machines. The authors mince no words, and advise you on the detection tools to use (they like and use Snort, as well as Shadow, Tripwire, TCP Wrappers, and others) and how to use them. This second edition of the book includes less about year-2000 preparation and more about the latest in attacks, countermeasures, and the growing community of white-hat hackers who share information to keep systems safe.

In teaching their readers about the attacks that exploit a particular protocol or service, the authors typically present a TCPdump listing that shows an attack, and then comment upon it. They tell you what the attackers did, how successful they were, and how the attack might have been detected and shut down. To cite one example, there's a very detailed analysis of Kevin Mitnick's famous attack (a SYN flood, combined with TCP hijacking) on one of Tsutomu Shimomura's machines. By following the advice in this book, you'll likely do well in protecting your machines against people whom the authors call "script kiddies" --small-time hackers who follow published recipes (or run prewritten routines). Also, you'll be about as prepared as you can be against more skilled attackers who make up their attacks on their own. This is great reading for anyone who's involved in developing filters to ward off attacks or monitoring network communications for suspicious activity. It's also a valuable resource for someone who's evaluating network countermeasures in preparation for deployment. --David Wall

Topics covered: Analysis of TCP/IP traffic, with an eye toward detecting and halting malicious activity, both manually and automatically. Subjects include tools for finding weaknesses and initiating attacks, and the signatures that identify these tools. There's discussion of the vulnerabilities that exist in services, such as IMAP and Domain Name System (DNS).

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Intrusion detection is one of the hottest growing areas of network security. As the number of corporate, government, and educational networks grow and as they become more and more interconnected through the Internet, there is a correlating increase in the types and numbers of attacks to penetrate those networks. Intrusion Detection, Second Edition is a training aid and reference for intrusion detection analysts. This book is meant to be practical. The authors are literally the most recognized names in this specialized field, with unparalleled experience in defending our country's government and military computer networks. People travel from all over the world to hear them speak, and this book will be a distillation of that experience. The book's approach is to introduce and ground topics through actual traffic patterns. The authors have been through the trenches and give you access to unusual and unique data.

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A well done work.......2007-06-27

The book's very good,it's very helpful for those who work with network,specially in security field.The authors are very experienced in networking.
It describes the TCP/IP in detail and shows how it work and how to recognize strange network traffic by monitoring the network using tcpdump.
I recommend it for seasoned network administrators and for beginners.

Lots of good info here!.......2007-04-11

Very nice! Wow this book gets into detail, down to sequence numbers anomalies, I mean after reading this you can read tcpdumps and just be able to see whats going on - kind of like that scene in the matrix with being able to look at code and see the woman in the red.
Well maybe Im going overboard a bit, but it does give you really nice detail of how the protocol works, how it can be attacked, how DNS/FTP/email/telnet etc work and can be used maliciously - so that way you know how to pick up on attacks. Not bad at all. Combine this book with another one focusing purely on a specific IPS/IDS and maybe one more purely focusing on hacking tools, and Id say you are well armed.

Of course I would recommend real life lab-time usage of all discussed :)

a classic case of lack of objectivity in review.......2006-05-27

If you read through the reviews, you would think that there is no other better book on the exposition of IDS systems than this one. The fact is that the quality of presentation of material is very poor, and the book reads like a collection of newsgroup replies and a few cut and paste web articles. So why this discussion ? It happens that Stephen Northcutt is an author and evaluator at GIAC and SANS, private organizations trying to hype up their brand name "certifications". It helps to be in the good looks of SANS when it comes to the "certification" and "advertising" arena. The bottom line: read between the lines (there is one proper review in the list before this one) and hope for a more objective approach when it comes to book reviews. Until then, if you do not trust this review, you have to risk it and buy it ! Flamers, you are welcome to go ahead and get into the good books of Northcutt.

Many elements are valid for beginners, but are othewise outdated.......2006-05-16

A book like this is always aiming at a moving target. I work at a company that focuses on up-to-the-minute IDS and IPS technologies, based substantially on the same code and techniques involved in this book. Unfortunately, having passed the beginner stage, I found this book outdated.

If you already know the Layer 3/Layer 4 protocols, there's not a lot here that isn't already widely known in the IDS community. The chapters on Snort are extremely outdated. No discussion of the extremely complex Flowbits option, and no discussion of the numerous sophisticated payload navigation options such as Byte Jump and Byte Test. This is after being subjected to a lecture elsewhere in the book that payload inspection is important.

Also, the attacks described in this book are pretty much ancient history. More discussions of spyware attacks such as 2020search and 180solutions are vital to keep this book up to date.

Frankly, I don't see how this book is useful for anyone except rank beginners who need an introduction. In that capacity it definitely will be helpful.

Excellent book at TCP/IP analysis.......2006-02-06

"Network Intrusion Detection" 3rd Edition, by Northcutt and Novak does an excellent job at teaching the protocols, tools and analysis required to become a network analysis. I have been impressed with other books by Stephen Northcutt and this book also does not disappoint.

The book is broken up into 5 sections. The first section discusses TCP/IP (service ports, using TCPdump, fragmentation, the mechanics of ICMP, etc.). When newbie network admins have asked `Where do I start to have a greater appreciation of TCP/IP?" I have recommended the first 75 pages many times. I feel this is a great `primer', rather than dedicating the time to read Stevens' "TCP/IP Illustrated".

The 2nd section deals with traffic analysis - and this is the real beauty of the book. Packet dissemination and header dissection is thoroughly explored. I particularly liked the discussion of an `Insertion Attack' on page 144. The 3rd section discusses filters and rules for network monitoring. Some other books deal with the same info, but this is a one-stop-shop book. The forth and fifth sections deal with intrusion infrastructure and various exploits, and DoS.

The authors have contributed to SANS courses (Northcutt is the CEO of SANS). Their experience from years of teaching have helped create an excellent book on TCP/IP analysis. The only downside to the book is that the fluidity is somewhat staggered, and there is some rambling (kind of like what you expect a professor to do when reminiscing). I also think the last two sections can be sliced out, and more pages dedicated to packet analysis. Still, this is one of the best books on the market for TCP/IP analysis (see my reviews for others).

I give this book 4 pings out of 5:
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Accounting for M&A, Equity, and Credit Analysts

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Accounting for M&A, Equity, and Credit Analysts
James Morris
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0071429697

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As each new accounting question or scandal hits Wall Street, investment professionals too often find themselves asking, “What happened?” Accounting for M&A, Equity, and Credit Analysts answers the most common accounting questions, all in an easy-to-follow format designed to provide investment professionals with real-world, hands-on knowledge of key accounting treatments, models, and practices. Written by well-known M&A expert James E. Morris, this versatile accounting desk reference bridges the gap between what is taught in business school and what is needed in the real world.

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"As each new accounting question or scandal hits Wall Street, investment professionals too often find themselves asking, "What happened?" Accounting for M&A, Equity, and Credit Analysts answers the most common accounting questions, all in an easy-to-follow format designed to provide investment professionals with real-world, hands-on knowledge of key accounting treatments, models, and practices. Written by well-known M&A expert James E. Morris, this versatile accounting desk reference bridges the gap between what is taught in business school and what is needed in the real world. "

Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)

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Strengthened with literature and poetry
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Let it be peace among havoc
A life saver!!
The Deeply Authentic Life

Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)
James Hollis
Manufacturer: Inner City Books
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Binding: Paperback

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On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions (Studies in Jungian Psychology in Jungian Analysts, Volume 103)
Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)

ASIN: 0919123740

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Strengthened with literature and poetry.......2007-06-06

I have read several of this author's books. I found this book to be his most compelling book. Each chapter can be taken separately if you like and I like to wonder back through, re-reading different chapters to get a closer study. More than most psychology writers and even Jungian writers, Mr. Hollis adds beauty to his work with his extensive and well taken quotes from literature. I will never pass my copy on to a friend or to the used book dealer. Worth noting also is that this was one of his earlier books and I believe it introduces much of what he covers in later books.

Book review.......2007-05-31

I have read meanwhile several books of James Hollis. I have bought all of them, but I am not through with all yet.
I am sorry that I have never met a person with his view in my whole life.
I enjoy reading his books, because they are profound and because they are written in a style that gives you the impression as if Dr. Hollis is sitting in front of you and talking to you in person. It is as if there is a genuine and wise friend in front of you, who understands life with all its ramifications and who teaches you about it. I prefer reading his books over talking to people.

Let it be peace among havoc.......2007-05-06

Soothing reading. Thanks,James. I'm just about to finish reading all of your books. Please, write some more.

A life saver!!.......2004-01-20

This book brought me back from the depths of despair! I HIGHLY recommend it for anyone experiencing extreme guilt, grief, loss, betrayal, doubt, loneliness, depression, despair, obsession, addiction, anger, fear, angst or anxiety. The book goes through every one of these topics in great detail. It explains their causes, symptoms, and ways of overcoming them. It explains the opportunity for growth that is inherent in our struggles, providing inspiration and hope when it is most needed. I will warn that the author uses some vocabulary that non-psychologists won't know. Just keep your dictionary handy. It's well worth the effort.

The Deeply Authentic Life.......2003-05-17

For those of us who struggle with uncommonly difficult fates -- and the attendant uncommonly difficult mother, father and other nearly autonomous swollen complexes -- James Hollis is among the few unsentimental Jungian analysts who writes with an integral awareness of object relations theory and the DSM and the paradoxes of individuation and an authentically lived life of integrity. "Consciousness broadens and enriches us, though it may be dearly paid for." Good case and dream studies and a discerning teacher. An unfortunately melodramatic title, but recommended.

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The Best Book on Investing I've Read!
A disciplined strategy
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A must read!
One of the Best Investment Books Ever

Dancing With the Analysts
David A. Mallach
Manufacturer: Penhurst Books
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ASIN: 0970568428

Book Description

A powerful novel by a Wall Street veteran based on his 29 years experience. Through this story, the author reveals his proven investment principles, which he has taught and practiced around the world. Austin is a young man unprepared for a life-shattering experience. His deceased father, whom he never really knew, has left him a million dollars, with a promise of five million more IF Austin meets the strict conditions.

He must invest the one million dollars and earn 15% a year for 3 years, or he will lose the five million. But he could easily lose the million he has by trying.

Play it safe?
Take the million and run.
Or risk it all, and go for the five million?
What will Austin do?
What would YOU do?

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The Best Book on Investing I've Read!.......2007-01-06

If you're one of those know-it-all money people, this book is not for you. But if you are serious about finding a growth strategy that has made people hundreds of millions over the last 30 years, I highly recommend this book. In fact, I gave it out to numerous friends for Christmas. Look, I had to read the book twice before realizing whay is really going on.

The book reads like a novel, but it is really an instructional piece on this Mr. Mallach's investment strategy. At first, I didn't believe it, partly because I was expecting more of a novel than a primer. The story helps you digest things, though. That's the point I missed the first time around. The second time through, it all clicked for me. Let me tell you... it's unbelievable.

Having done subsequent research of Mr. Mallach, I found out that Merrill Lynch is planning to take over his strategy for their own! That in itself is amazing. This is no ordinary broker peddling wares. It's like that McDonald's franchisee who invented the Egg McMuffin! Now it's the number one breakfast sandwich in the fast food biz.

I contacted some of the people who wrote reviews here, and the stories are all true! I even created a mock portfolio and GHod do I wish I put the money in for real! Read the book as an insturctional tale and reap the rewards.

A disciplined strategy.......2006-08-10

Don't be fooled by the fictional setting of this story. There are important lessons to be learned on investing and the journey undertaken by the main character. Mallach is an incredibly successful Wall Street veteran and the Strategy works!

Excellent.......2005-09-16

This is an outstanding book. It presents a strategy for investing that is very simple and straightforward. It is also a strategy that works! It is presented in a fictional way, but the results are anything but fictional. The author works for a major wall street firm and if you follow the strategy using the firm's research, you have generated a 26% annualized return since 1990. The entire key to the sucess is the sell strategy, which prevents you from selling the winners to soon and allows you to actually hold stocks that go up 30 times or more. I find some of the other reviews funny to read, as they have no idea this is a real strategy that has made people very wealthy over the years.

A must read!.......2005-05-07

This book is very enjoyable to read and very easy to follow. It may be the only financial book that I have read where I am BOTH enjoying the story, as well as learning some valuable investment practices. From my experiences, it is usuallly just one or the other. "Dancing with the Analysts," while explaining this impressive investment strategy, takes the reader into the shoes of the main character and takes you through a roller coaster of real-life events in the life of a young man. It is an exciting book and very educational to anyone who works, or is interested in the world of investments.

One of the Best Investment Books Ever.......2005-01-07

Learn from an industry veteran. A must read for anyone who is, or will be, investing in equities. Writing in story format, Mr. Mallach conveys 30 plus years of wisdom that investment professionals pay to learn. Read beyond the characters to find out what drives equity prices.

The Bank Analyst's Handbook: Money, Risk and Conjuring Tricks

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An excellent discussion of banking and finance.

The Bank Analyst's Handbook: Money, Risk and Conjuring Tricks
Stephen M. Frost
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0470091185

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The Bank Analyst’s Handbook provides a modern introduction to financial markets and intermediation. Individual subject areas are covered in a thorough but clear and succinct manner. The breadth of the author’s experience as a sell-side bank analyst is exploited to good effect to pull together these threads and create a coherent framework for the analysis of financial markets, whether these are in advanced economies or developing markets.

The Handbook is well-written and highly accessible. It builds on orthodox financial theory (with all of its flaws and controversies) but also highlights many of the real problems involved with translating such theory into practice. It can be appreciated at many different levels and this explains its wide target readership. The Bank Analyst’s Handbook:

Bridges the gap between the more superficial introductory books and specialist works
Covers all the important functions and subjects related to the financial services industry
Provides a comprehensive overview for financial services professionals, business school students, consultants, accountants, auditors and legal practitioners, analysts and fund-managers and corporate managers.

"An excellent guide for any professionals who are coming into the banking industry. Extremely well-written, covering clearly and lucidly a range of topics which many bankers themselves don't understand. I will make this book mandatory reading - no, make that studying - for anybody I hire to work as a financial sector consultant."
âChris Matten, Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers

"A great insight into the often murky and impenetrable world of banking... compulsory reading for analysts and investors alike."
âHugh Young, Managing Director, Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd

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It is not uncommon to meet professionals in financial services who have only a vague idea of what their colleagues actually do. The root cause is specialization and the subsequent development of jargon that makes communication between common specialists faster and more precise but is virtually impenetrable to everybody else. The Bank Analyst's Handbook provides a modern introduction to financial markets and intermediation. Individual subject areas are covered in a thorough but clear and succinct manner. The breadth of the author's experience as a sell-side bank analyst is exploited to good effect to pull together these threads and create a coherent framework for the analysis of financial markets, whether these are in advanced economies or developing markets. The Handbook is well-written and highly accessible. It builds on orthodox financial theory (with all of its flaws and controversies) but also highlights many of the real problems involved with translating such theory into practice. It can be appreciated at many different levels and this explains its wide target readership. The Bank Analysts Handbook: Bridges the gap between the more superficial introductory books and specialist works Covers all the important functions and subjects related to the financial services industry Provides a comprehensive overview for financial services professionals, business school students, consultants, accountants, auditors and legal practitioners, analysts and fund-managers and corporate managers.

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An excellent discussion of banking and finance........2006-05-03

It is refreshing to read a book that is written like a conversation and not like a textbook, yet one that contains the appropriate financial rigors.

If you want to catch up with modern banking and look at it from an analyst's view, this is your book. I enjoyed it very much and use it as a reference often

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