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
An enjoyable slice of 20th-century music journalism almost certain to provide something for most readers, no matter one’s...
Music journalist and musician Wald (Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap, 2014, etc.) focuses on one evening in music history to explain the evolution of contemporary music, especially folk, blues, and rock.
The date of that evening is July 25, 1965, at the Newport Folk Festival, where there was an unbelievably unexpected occurrence: singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, already a living legend in his early 20s, overriding the acoustic music that made him famous in favor of electronically based music, causing reactions ranging from adoration to intense resentment among other musicians, DJs, and record buyers. Dylan has told his own stories (those stories vary because that’s Dylan’s character), and plenty of other music journalists have explored the Dylan phenomenon. What sets Wald's book apart is his laser focus on that one date. The detailed recounting of what did and did not occur on stage and in the audience that night contains contradictory evidence sorted skillfully by the author. He offers a wealth of context; in fact, his account of Dylan's stage appearance does not arrive until 250 pages in. The author cites dozens of sources, well-known and otherwise, but the key storylines, other than Dylan, involve acoustic folk music guru Pete Seeger and the rich history of the Newport festival, a history that had created expectations smashed by Dylan. Furthermore, the appearances on the pages by other musicians—e.g., Joan Baez, the Weaver, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Dave Van Ronk, and Gordon Lightfoot—give the book enough of an expansive feel. Wald's personal knowledge seems encyclopedic, and his endnotes show how he ranged far beyond personal knowledge to produce the book.
An enjoyable slice of 20th-century music journalism almost certain to provide something for most readers, no matter one’s personal feelings about Dylan's music or persona.Pub Date: July 25, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-06-236668-9
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Dey Street/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 15, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2015
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Highly recommended—anyone at all interested in music will learn a lot from this book.
From the former Talking Heads frontman, a supremely intelligent, superbly written dissection of music as an art form and way of life.
Drawing on a lifetime of music-making as an amateur, professional, performer, producer, band member and solo artist, Byrne (Bicycle Diaries, 2009) tackles the question implicit in his title from multiple angles: How does music work on the ear, brain and body? How do words relate to music in a song? How does live performance relate to recorded performance? What effect has technology had on music, and music on technology? Fans of the Talking Heads should find plenty to love about this book. Steering clear of the conflicts leading to the band’s breakup, Byrne walks through the history, album by album, to illustrate how his views about performance and recording changed with the onset of fame and (small) fortune. He devotes a chapter to the circumstances that made the gritty CBGB nightclub an ideal scene for adventurous artists like Patti Smith, the Ramones, Blondie and Tom Verlaine and Television. Always an intensely thoughtful experimenter, here he lets us in on the thinking behind the experiments. But this book is not just, or even primarily, a rock memoir. It’s also an exploration of the radical transformation—or surprising durability—of music from the beginning of the age of mechanical reproduction through the era of iTunes and MP3s. Byrne touches on all kinds of music from all ages and every part of the world.
Highly recommended—anyone at all interested in music will learn a lot from this book.Pub Date: Sept. 12, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-936365-53-1
Page Count: 352
Publisher: McSweeney’s
Review Posted Online: July 31, 2012
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 2012
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