A comprehensive, valuable, and reader-friendly cybersecurity guide.
A cybersecurity expert breaks down what every manager needs to know about the ever evolving threat of hackers in this debut manual.
Fire brings necessary warmth and light, but it can also be a destructive force, one whose power humanity has often had to find ways to protect against. Technology and the internet have become equally ubiquitous, but unlike fire, the perils they pose are always changing, requiring a special vigilance to combat. For executives, vigilance doesn’t mean absolute expertise, and Boyle, in his manual, shares with readers the “lite” version of the easily understandable lessons he has crafted to help businesses both large and small become shrewd cyber-risk managers. Mitigating these dangers underscores cyber-readiness as not just a matter of tech, but also worker education. Numerous templates are offered for addressing employees on the subject of cybersecurity, not just informing them, but also discovering what they already know and can contribute. The adaptive NIST Cybersecurity Framework, developed by the Department of Commerce, is explained as well as strategies for identifying problem areas, preventing hacking, and addressing the crime after it happens, internally and through press releases. The book is divided into two parts, the first emphasizing good cyberhygiene, offering helpful tips free of confusing and unnecessary technical jargon. Where technical information is necessary, the text provides simple-to-understand history lessons, looking at past cybercrime and espionage like the Equifax hack, the National Security Agency’s EternalBlue exploit, the infamous Evgeniy Bogachev, and the dark web. Though human error and education are emphasized, the guide does not neglect the technical tools available, walking readers through useful programs like password managers and virtual private networks and providing advice on the best ones. The second part is a condensed version of the lessons the author teaches directly to his customers. Charts, tables, and equations provided here help calculate risk mitigation and cost/benefit analysis with relative ease. In both parts, helpful “phases” sections and accessible lists make revisiting the multitude of tips and tricks a breeze. The Online Cyber Risk Workbook this manual links to is also immensely informative.
A comprehensive, valuable, and reader-friendly cybersecurity guide.Pub Date: Jan. 10, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5445-1319-5
Page Count: 266
Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing
Review Posted Online: March 6, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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