Book Review: “Cisco Firewall Video Mentor”
Any time you have a chance to learn the same information you would in a classroom for a fraction of the cost, you should take advantage of it. Additionally, if you can learn the same material but in less time than you would in the classroom, then you’d be foolish not to capitalize.
While there are plenty of books in the market about firewalls — most of which cover the same material you would in a classroom — they all suffer from the fact that they take longer to read and digest than if you just spent a few days listening to an instructor.
Enter Cisco Firewall Video Mentor. This product — you can’t really call it a book even though it has an ISBN and is sold as such — consists of 16 video vignettes on one DVD. Each snippet runs between 10 to 30 minutes and includes configuration tasks — such as setting up SSH access — and walks you through it. A small lab manual accompanies the DVD and includes the elements you’d expect to find in a training guide: scenario, steps, etc.
I was very impressed by the quality and content of the Cisco Firewall Video Mentor and hope to see this format utilized more often.
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