I have been on the labs since about 8am. It’s now 7pm. At lunch I watched the IPExpert CCIE Security DVD for a bit. I MUST stop for a bit. Have any of you readers done the Internetwork Expert CCIE Security Volume 2 Lab 2? The VPN stuff KILLED me! I posted a few times to the IEOC forum today before I realized that I was posting in the wrong place. DOH!
Anyhow, off to mess with the blog and the Amazon Kindle. I’m still getting used to it, but I really like it. I’m reading The Complete Cisco VPN Configuration Guide by Richard Deal. He has a great writing style and his stuff really makes sense.
I appreciate that book too! Not recent (December 2005) but really helpful.
In addition with “Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, IPS, and VPN Adaptive Security Appliance” and “Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook” they’re my favourite reading while studying CCSP. I’ve never appreciated “Study Guides”, good theory for exam preparation but not so good for real world.
To reach a good understainding of VPNs was a pretty hard task but now I feel comfortable implementing VPNs on PIX/ASA/IOS thanks to these manuals.
@Gian: I agree with you one the study guides as well. If you need to pass an exam they are great but they don’t really get into real world scenarios. Another book I’m reading right now, not on the kindle but in actual print, is Network Security Technologies and Solutions by Yusuf Bhaiji. It covers a ton of technologies and leaves a lot of the fluff out. Well, good studies!
Brandon