Open Door Networks security book, Internet Security for Your Macintosh (written by Alan Oppenheimer and Charles Whitaker, both of Open Door Networks), its associated blog, isfym.com, and its "Top 10" list are integrated into DoorStop X and the Who's There Firewall Advisor. The book contains a wealth of security information for Macintosh users, and its integration with these products helps you learn about and understand the details and underlying issues associated with securing your Mac. The blog provides important up-to-date information on the fast changing world of Internet security, and the "Top 10" list provides a simplified set of important security action items. The book, blog and list can be accessed in a number of ways.

Browsing

First, the book and blog can each be browsed from the Book menu. From the Book menu, choose a chapter and then a section of the book. DoorStop X will invoke your default Web browser, and have it open to the specified section. You can also search the blog and Top 10 list for any particular topic by choosing "Search Security Blog..." from the Book menu, or you can go right to the blog by choosing "Visit Security Blog." Results are again displayed in your default Web browser.

The "Top 10" list

"Internet Security for Your Macintosh: The Top 10" can be browsed from the Help menu. Simply select "Security Top 10" and DoorStop X will invoke your default Web browser, and have it open to the list. Even if you don't have much time to spend with the book or the blog, it's important from a security perpsective that you spend a few minutes reviewing the list periodically (it's updated as security priorities change over time).

Information on a specific service

Information from the book on most specific services can also be displayed. Whenever a specific service has been selected, DoorStop can have your default browser display an index of entries in the book that relate to the service, along with a link for searching the blog for recent information on the service. Specifying a service means either of the following:

• Select an item in the "Protect these services" list in the main window, and then click the "eBook" button below the list, or choose "View eBook for ..." from the Book menu.
• Select a service from the Service Information dialog, and then click the "eBook" button at the bottom of the dialog, or choose "View eBook for ..." from the Book menu.

Either of these ways causes your default browser to display the relevant entries in the book. See Figure 1.

A list of relevant passages is displayed on the left, with the text of passages displayed on the right. If there is nothing in the book that corresponds to a service, you'll see a list of passages that relate to unknown services.

At the bottom of the list on the left will also be a link that can be used to perform a Google search of the blog and Top 10 list for entries relating to the selected service. See Figure 2. The results will be displayed in the section at the right. Alternately, if you want to search the blog and list directly, you can choose "Search Security Blog..." from the Book menu. The search will be automatically set up for the selected service, although you can change the search using the dialog box if you'd like. Then just click OK.

The standalone version of Internet Security for Your Macintosh

Internet Security for Your Macintosh is also available as a standalone product with features that make the book even more useful. Available separately or as part of the DoorStop X Security Suite, the standalone version is a PDF document with a hot-linked table of contents and index. You can utilize a number of advanced PDF features with the standalone book, such as the ability to search the entire document at once for a given term, and the ability to print out specific sections.

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