Penetration testers are faced with a combination of firewalls, intrusion detection
systems, host-based protection, hardened systems, and teams of knowledgeable
analysts that pour over data collected by their security information management
systems. In an environment such as this, simply running automated tools will
typically...
Content. It’s become a very powerful word in the Internet age, empowering people everywhere to have a voice. Through words, video, audio, and all its other forms, content tells the story of your product or service and propels your brand into the hearts and minds of your prospects, customers, and others. Without content, the web would...
As technology feature size of devices and interconnects shrink at the rate predicted
by Moore’s law, gate density and design complexity on single integrated chip
(IC) keep increasing in recent decades. The close to nanoscale fabrication process
introduces more manufacturing errors. New failure mechanisms that are not covered...
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is Microsoft’s first cloud-ready information platform. It gives organizations effective tools to protect, unlock, and scale the power of their data, and it works across a variety of devices and data sources, from desktops, phones, and tablets, to datacenters and both private and public clouds. Our purpose in...
Engineering for sustainability is an emerging theme for the twenty-first century,
and the need for more environmentally benign electric power systems is a critical
part of this new thrust. Renewable energy systems that take advantage of
energy sources that won’t diminish over time and are independent of fluctuations
in...
Within the last 15 years in the field of “sputtering by particle bombardment”
several new and important results have been published in internal reports,
in PhD thesis, as well as in the open literature. This relates especially to
a more detailed understanding of the sputtering process by computational
means such as...
CompTIA® Security+ Exam Cram, Third Edition, is the perfect study guide to help you pass CompTIA’s newly updated version of the Security+ exam. It provides coverage and practice questions for...
Students graduating today face a tough job market—making
it important that they develop the expertise and critical
thinking skills that give them a competitive edge.
Information Technology for Management, 8th edition is
designed to give students an edge when they face the
challenges and opportunities that business...
As far back as 1999, some smart guys predicted that mobile would become the primary focus of development in only a few years. Although it has taken a bit more time than expected, the era of mobile software has arrived at last. Why did it take so long? The answer is surprisingly simple: mobile software needed a critical mass of users...
One exciting aspect of software programming is that there are usually many ways
to accomplish the same goal. Unfortunately, this also presents software engineers
with unique challenges when trying to make the best design or implementation choice
for each situation. Experience plays a major role, and the learning...
Many of you reading this book are about to embark on the journey of implementing customer relationship management (CRM) software within your organization; some of you are completely new to CRM, while others have been through a CRM implementation with varied success. This book was written to provide business leaders and stakeholders with a...
Windows Internals, Sixth Edition is intended for advanced computer professionals
(both developers
and system administrators) who want to understand how the
core components of the Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating
systems work internally. With this knowledge, developers can better...
