Larstan's the Black Book on Corporate Security


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The statistics are staggering: security losses in the billions, unauthorized computer usage in 50 percent of businesses, $2 million spent per company on a single virus attack. "The Black Book on Corporate Security offers a wide range of solutions to these challenging problems. Written by the brightest minds in the field, each of the essays in this book takes on a different aspect of corporate security. Individual chapters cover such topics as maintaining data safety, fighting online identity theft, managing and protecting intellectual property in a shared information environment, securing content, and much more. Written in clear, intelligible language, the book is designed around a "spy" motif that presents advanced information in a simple, entertaining format. Each spread features an "Insider Notes" sidebar, while the research conducted specifically for the book is displayed in easy-to-read charts accompanied by author analysis. Case studies, a glossary, and a resource index multiply the book's utility.




Larstan's the Black Book on Personal Finance


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Written by experts who advise higher-income clients on finances, taxes, insurance, and business, The Black Book of Personal Finance combines its authors' years of experience into a single volume. Written from an advanced perspective that is intelligible to the layperson, this book presents a wide range of topics for those who either have or aspire to an annual household income in excess of $75,000. Individual chapters cover reasons to avoid the advice of most self-anointed experts and cover topics including: an 11-step investing process, a sector rotation strategy that generates gains in any market condition, using life insurance premium financing to dramatically increase cash flow, maximizing bequests to beneficiaries, and more. Like other books in this series, this one is designed with an engaging spy motif on each spread that simplifies complex information.




Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection held in September 2005. The 15 revised full papers and two practical experience reports were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on worm detection and containment, anomaly detection, intrusion prevention and response, intrusion detection based on system calls and network-based, as well as intrusion detection in mobile and wireless networks.




Critical Information Infrastructures


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The world moves on Critical Information Infrastructures, and their resilience and protection is of vital importance. Starting with some basic definitions and assumptions on the topic, this book goes on to explore various aspects of Critical Infrastructures throughout the world – including the technological, political, economic, strategic and defensive. This book will be of interest to the CEO and Academic alike as they grapple with how to prepare Critical Information Infrastructures for new challenges.




Larstan's the Black Book on Government Security


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Written for federal, state, and local governments, each chapter in this book covers a different aspect of securing government information. Each expert author has agreed to share the secrets and advanced-level information gained by years in the business. Chapters cover identity/access management, identity theft, intellectual property, content security, converged networks, recovery strategies, national infrastructure, and more. Case studies, charts and author analysis, and proprietary research make the book accessible, while the writing style makes complex information intelligible to a wide range of readers.







Secrets of Soa


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Targeted at management, the first six chapters of Secrets of SOA focus on the business impact of service-oriented architecture technological decisions with an emphasis on cost, flexibility, and the ability to maintain business objectives. Each of the six chapters explores a different topic that illustrates the value of a physically integrated SOA infrastructure organized at the enterprise level. Taken together, they demonstrate why enterprise-level planning, backed by a centralized deployment strategy, is essential to the success of SOA. Aimed at the IT executive, the second half of the book deals with specific IT issues raised by SOAs and why these issues are best dealt with on an enterprise level. Among the topics covered in these eight chapters are virtualizing resources, managing heterogeneous workloads, maintaining data and transactional integrity, and the value of proximity.




CSO


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The business to business trade publication for information and physical Security professionals.







College Services


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