Computer Security

Unlock your potential in the fast-growing field of cybersecurity with the CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Masterclass – the most comprehensive guide to achieving certification and accelerating your career growth! Whether you're new to IT or looking to level up your security expertise, this book is designed for all learners. Packed with 200+ practice exam questions, detailed answers, and clear explanations, this Masterclass ensures you're fully prepared for the SY0-701 Security+ exam.

The topic of security culture is mysterious and confusing to most leaders. But it doesn't have to be. In The Security Culture Playbook, Perry Carpenter and Kai Roer deliver experience-driven, actionable insights into how to transform your organization's security culture and reduce human risk at every level. This book exposes the gaps in how organizations have traditionally approached human risk, and it provides security and business executives with the necessary information and tools needed to understand, measure, and improve facets of security culture across the organization.

CompTIA A+ & Security+ Certification Guide is the ultimate 2-in-1 study companion engineered to fast-track your path to IT success. Whether you're aiming to crush exams 220-1101, 220-1102, or the new SY0-701, this elegant and comprehensive manual is your launchpad to a thriving tech career.

We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970.

We live in the age of disinformation - of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm, even before the 2016 election. But this is not new. The story of modern disinformation begins with the clash between communism and capitalism after the Russian Revolution.

Whether you're an Azure enthusiast aiming to validate your skills or an IT professional seeking to enhance your career prospects, this book will empower you to become a certified Azure Administrator Associate. With a solid grasp of Azure's key principles and hands-on expertise, you'll be well-prepared to meet the growing demand for Azure administrators in today's competitive job market. Start your journey to certification success today.

Get a fascinating and disturbing look into how state and nonstate actors throughout the world use cyber attacks to gain military, political, and economic advantages. In the third edition of this book, cyber warfare researcher Jeffrey Caruso explores the latest advances in cyber espionage and warfare that have emerged on the battlefields of Ukraine and the Middle East.

The ability to hack AI and the technology industry's lack of effort to secure it is thought by experts to be the biggest unaddressed technology issue of our time. Hacking Artificial Intelligence sheds light on these hacking risks, explaining them to those who can make a difference. This book is the first-ever layman's guide to the new world of hacking AI and introduces the field to thousands of people who should be aware of these risks. From a security perspective, AI is today where the internet was thirty years ago. It is wide open and can be exploited.

If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy - the author who made "hackers" a household word - comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the 21st century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels" - nerds and visionaries turned freedom fighters - teamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the internet.

Based on news reports, you might think there's a major cybersecurity threat every four to five months. In reality, there's a cybersecurity attack happening every minute of every day. In Cyber Crisis, Eric Cole gives listeners a clear-eyed picture of the information war raging in cyberspace. Drawing on 30 years of experience, Cole offers practical, actionable advice that even those with little technical background can implement, including steps to take on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to protect their businesses and themselves.

Every organization needs a strong security program. One recent study estimated that a hacker attack occurs somewhere every 37 seconds. Since security programs are only as effective as a team's willingness to follow their rules and protocols, it's increasingly necessary to have not just a widely accessible gold standard of security, but also a practical plan for rolling it out and getting others on board with following it. Security Awareness for Dummies gives you the blueprint for implementing this sort of holistic and hyper-secure program in your organization.

Internationally renowned privacy expert Daniel J. Solove draws from a range of fields, from law to philosophy to the humanities, to illustrate the profound changes technology is wreaking upon our privacy, why they matter, and what can be done about them. Solove provides incisive examinations of key concepts in the digital sphere, including control, manipulation, harm, automation, reputation, consent, prediction, inference, and many others.

Award Winning author, T.L. Williams, has crafted another spellbinding journey through the murky world of intelligence operations as CIA Operations Officer, Logan Alexander, goes under deep cover to do battle against China’s massive cyber hacking apparatus. Based in Hong Kong, under the auspices of Alexander Maritime, a maritime consulting firm and defense contractor, Logan is at the forefront of a U.S. government program to identify and mitigate Chinese cyber hacking against U.S. targets. China’s state-sponsored hacking machine costs the U.S. billions of dollars in intellectual property...

The first time I used a computer, it intrigued me to know how these interfaces work. In this audiobook, you’ll learn the same way I did.

Joe Tidy is the BBC’s first ever Cyber Correspondent and the foremost voice in the corporation on cyber crime and hacking. Over the past 5 years, he has covered all major cyber attacks for BBC TV, Radio, social media, and website.

In Wiley's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Study Guide, you'll get the information you need to succeed on the demanding CISM exam. You'll also develop the IT security skills and confidence you need to prove yourself where it really counts: on the job. Chapters are organized intuitively and by exam objective so you can easily keep track of what you've covered and what you still need to study. You'll also get access to a pre-assessment, so you can find out where you stand before you take your studies further.

A great deal of time and money is spent on protecting critical digital assets. Many organizations focus their security testing on compliance or limited scope reviews of a system. These limited tests often leave an organization with a false sense of security. Organizations that open themselves to an assessment of not only their technology but of their people and processes can significantly improve their security posture and adjust its limited security budget and resources to protect the most critical assets. Scenario-based testing and Red Team techniques can be used to determine how an ...

Despite its reputation as a language only of spies and hackers, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Though often invisible, it underpins the security of our mobile phone calls, credit card payments, web searches, internet messaging, and cryptocurrencies - in short, everything we do online.

Gain cybersecurity confidence–unlock the secrets to a foolproof defense system for your digital assets. Did you know that a staggering 83% of businesses were hit by a cyber attack in 2022, and 60% of small companies never bounced back to their former glory within 6 months of the data breach? We live in a digital era where corporate secrets, critical data, and even our personal information, are always at the mercy of these invisible threats.

With rapidly changing architecture and API-driven automation, cloud platforms come with unique security challenges and opportunities. In this updated second edition, you'll examine security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up.