Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-03-08
Dewey code: 006.6
Price: £16.73
Review The Art of Game Worlds / Harper Design International:
Publication date: 2000-09-05
Dewey code: 005.8
RRP: £18.95
Price: £10.00
Review Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World / John Wiley & Sons:At the moment, it seems that hardly a day passes without fresh news of some glaring Internet security breach; online banks, of all things, seem to be particularly vulnerable at the moment. All of which will come as no great surprise to network security cum cryptography guru, Bruce Schnier. His latest book, Secrets and Lies, paints a very gloomy overview of the true state of network security. Schnier, founder of Counterpane Internet Security, has some harsh words to say about the state of network security, though, to be fair, his criticisms are directed far and wide; not one scapegoat, (not even Microsoft) is singled out for special attention. Depressingly, the words "fundamentally flawed" crop up time and time again in this absorbing book. Secrets and Lies is a thorough backgrounder in all aspects of network security, an extremely wide remit that stretches from passwords to encryption, passing through authentication and attack trees along the way. The book is divided in to three broad categories, The Landscape, which covers attacks, adversaries and the need for security; Technologies, which discusses cryptography, authentication, network security, secure hardware and security tricks; and concludes with Strategies, which looks at vulnerabilities, risk assessment, security policies and the future of security. Mercifully there's a dim light at the end of this tunnel and Schnier ultimately remains upbeat about maintaining computer security and details a way forward in his conclusion. Although working in a necessarily techie environment, Schnier's book is surprisingly jargon-free and easy to understand, even if you're not au fait with the inner workings of TCP/IP-it's common-sense, practical style makes a potentially dense and arcane subject accessible by just about anybody. It's also bang up to date, which makes for a pleasant change. [+]Secrets and Lies is never less than thought-provoking and should be essential reading for every network administrator in the land. Be afraid, be very afraid! -Roger Gann.
Publication date: 2008-03-11
Dewey code: 658.872
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.61
Review Do-it-yourself Web Stores for Dummies (For Dummies) / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Publication date: 2006-08-23
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £31.99
Price: £23.98
Review Project Management: An Introduction Based on PRINCE2 Edition 2005 3rd Edition: An Introduction Based on PRINCE2 Edition 2005 (Best Practice) / VAN HAREN PUBLISHING:
Publication date: 2008-01-14
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £7.95
Price: £6.90
Review Service Level Agreement 100 Success Secrets - SLA, Service Level Agreements, Service Level Management and Much More / Emereo Pty Limited:
Creator: Yair Amichai-Hamburger
Publication date: 2005-04-07
Dewey code: 303.4833
RRP: £30.00
Price: £24.15
Review The Social Net: Human Behavior in Cyberspace / OUP Oxford:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-02-01
Dewey code: 364
Price: £6.99
Review Traces of Guilt / Corgi Books:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-06-05
Dewey code: 659.202854678
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.47
Review Strategies and Tools for Corporate Blogging / Butterworth-Heinemann:
Authors
- Christopher Locke
- David Weinberger
- Doc Searls
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.49
Review The Cluetrain Manifesto / ft com:How would you classify a book that begins with the salutation "People of Earth. "? While the captains of industry may dismiss it as mere science fiction, The Cluetrain Manifesto is definitely of this day and age. Aiming squarely at the solar plexus of corporate America, authors Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls and David Weinberger show how the Internet is turning business upside down. They proclaim that, thanks to conversations taking place on Web sites and message boards, and in e-mail and chat rooms, employees and customers alike have found voices that undermine the traditional command-and-control hierarchy that organizes most corporate marketing groups. "Markets are conversations", the authors write, and those conversations are "getting smarter and faster than most companies". In their view, the lowly customer service rep wields far more power and influence in today's marketplace than the well-oiled front office PR machine. The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (www. cluetrain. [+]com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal and NPR, posted 95 theses that pronounced what they felt was the new reality of the networked marketplace. For example, thesis no. 2: "Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors"; thesis no. 20: "Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them"; thesis no. 62: "Markets do not want to talk to flacks and hucksters. They want to participate in the conversations going on behind the corporate firewall"; thesis no. 74: "We are immune to advertising. Just forget it". The book enlarges on these themes through seven essays filled with dozens of stories and observations about how business gets done in America and how the Internet will change it all. While Cluetrain will strike many as loud and over the top, the message itself remains quite relevant and unique. This book is for anyone interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially important for those businesses struggling to navigate the topography of the wired marketplace. All aboard! -Harry C. Edwards,Amazon. com.
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2005-02-01
Dewey code: 005.8
RRP: £43.46
Price: £19.99
Review Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation (Charles River Media Networking/Security) / Charles River Media:The mightiest fortresses in the world can fail, and when that happens all you can do is figure out what went wrong, what damage was done, and by whom. If the castle was located in the right kind of kingdom-to take a metaphor too far-you can hope to prosecute the perpetrator. Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation explains how to gather evidence of computer crimes in such a way that it will be more likely to lead to a conviction in a criminal court. It's an interesting legal area-after all, it's almost always you, and not any law enforcement agency, doing the surveillance and evidence gathering on your computer systems-and John Vacca has done a fair bit of research. This book will probably expand your thinking on the subject of information security. On the other hand, though Vacca gives good general advice (don't lose volatile information by shutting a compromised machine down mid-attack; do be prepared to translate memory dumps into jury-readable form), he sometimes meanders into generalisations and irrelevancies. It's certainly scary that terrorists distribute their plans via public Web sites, but that fact is hardly helpful to someone wanting to prosecute the guy who vandalised the corporate Web site. Similarly interesting, but practically irrelevant to most of us, are discussions of high-energy radio frequency (HERF) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons that can knock out information systems from a distance. More focus on evidence collection in organisational computing environments would make this book useful, rather than just generally informative. -David Wall (Amazon. [+]com)Topics covered: how to gather evidence of a hack attack after the fact, and a lot of general-interest information on the state of crime and law-enforcement in computer technology. Coverage is almost all general in nature, dealing with how to formulate a strategy and deal with events without getting into details of any operating system or computing environment.
Publication date: 2008-01-27
Dewey code: 005
RRP: £7.95
Price: £7.36
Review Disaster Recovery 100 Success Secrets - IT Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery Planning and Services / Emereo Pty Limited:
Publication date: 2000-09-05
Dewey code: 005.8
RRP: £18.95
Price: £10.00
Review Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World / John Wiley & Sons:At the moment, it seems that hardly a day passes without fresh news of some glaring Internet security breach; online banks, of all things, seem to be particularly vulnerable at the moment. All of which will come as no great surprise to network security cum cryptography guru, Bruce Schnier. His latest book, Secrets and Lies, paints a very gloomy overview of the true state of network security. Schnier, founder of Counterpane Internet Security, has some harsh words to say about the state of network security, though, to be fair, his criticisms are directed far and wide; not one scapegoat, (not even Microsoft) is singled out for special attention. Depressingly, the words "fundamentally flawed" crop up time and time again in this absorbing book. Secrets and Lies is a thorough backgrounder in all aspects of network security, an extremely wide remit that stretches from passwords to encryption, passing through authentication and attack trees along the way. The book is divided in to three broad categories, The Landscape, which covers attacks, adversaries and the need for security; Technologies, which discusses cryptography, authentication, network security, secure hardware and security tricks; and concludes with Strategies, which looks at vulnerabilities, risk assessment, security policies and the future of security. Mercifully there's a dim light at the end of this tunnel and Schnier ultimately remains upbeat about maintaining computer security and details a way forward in his conclusion. Although working in a necessarily techie environment, Schnier's book is surprisingly jargon-free and easy to understand, even if you're not au fait with the inner workings of TCP/IP-it's common-sense, practical style makes a potentially dense and arcane subject accessible by just about anybody. It's also bang up to date, which makes for a pleasant change. [+]Secrets and Lies is never less than thought-provoking and should be essential reading for every network administrator in the land. Be afraid, be very afraid! -Roger Gann.
Creator: Yair Amichai-Hamburger
Publication date: 2005-04-07
Dewey code: 303.4833
RRP: £30.00
Price: £24.15
Review The Social Net: Human Behavior in Cyberspace / OUP Oxford:
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Publication date: 2006-08-23
Dewey code: 658
RRP: £31.99
Price: £23.98
Review Project Management: An Introduction Based on PRINCE2 Edition 2005 3rd Edition: An Introduction Based on PRINCE2 Edition 2005 (Best Practice) / VAN HAREN PUBLISHING:
Authors
- Michael P. Lujanac
- Dan W. Blacharski
Dewey code: 381.177
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.08
Review How and Where to Locate the Merchandise to Sell on eBay: Insider Information You Need to Know from the Experts Who Do It Every Day / Atlantic Publishing Company (FL):
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-07
Dewey code: 324.7092
Price: £8.54
Review The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything / ReganBooks:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-06-05
Dewey code: 659.202854678
RRP: £17.99
Price: £12.47
Review Strategies and Tools for Corporate Blogging / Butterworth-Heinemann:
Authors
- Nick Barclay
- Adrian Downes
Dewey code: 005.5
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.00
Review The Rational Guide to Planning with Microsoft Office Performancepoint Server 2007 (Rational Guides) / Rational Press:
Publication date: 2007-09-29
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.68
Review Tough Choices: A Memoir / Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-03-11
Dewey code: 658.872
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.61
Review Do-it-yourself Web Stores for Dummies (For Dummies) / John Wiley & Sons:
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