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For over 40 years the premier publisher for IT professionals.
We offer a wide range of publications — both print and electronic —
including the IT KnowledgeBase.
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Oracle Embedded Programming and Application Development
Publication date: August 13, 2010
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Geared towards IT professionals developing Oracle-based Web-enabled applications in PLlSQL, Java, C, C++, .NET, Perl, and PHP, this book focuses on best practices in Oracle embedded programming and emphasizes their use in application development, design, and coding. It explains application development frameworks for embedding code segments across .NET, Java, and open source environments using SQL, PLlSQL, and Oracle RDBMS through version 11g. Concentrating on techniques and practices that facilitate efficient integration and interaction with the Oracle database, this book shows how to improve code compilation and execution.
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Scrum Project Management
Publication date: August 13, 2010
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Presenting a modified version of the agile software development framework, the book introduces Scrum basics and explains how to apply this adaptive technique to effectively manage a wide range of programs and complex projects. It provides proven planning methods for controlling project scope and ensuring your project stays on schedule. It also includes Scrum tracking methods to help your team maintain a focus on improving throughput and streamlining communications. Having successfully deployed and implemented Scrum across multiple companies and departments, the authors provide valuable insight into how they achieved their past successes and how they overcame the trials involved with the deployment of a Scrum environment.
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Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, Second Edition
Publication date: August 20, 2010
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Named one of the Best Privacy Advisers in the World by Computerworld and a Top 13 Influencer in IT Security by IT Security Magazine, Rebecca Herold provides authoritative coverage of what it takes to create an effective information security and privacy awareness training program. She details a proven framework for creating a training program that is compliant with applicable laws, and supplies case studies from a range of businesses and industries. Complete with 250 awareness activities ideas and 42 helpful tips for trainers, this all-in-one resource provides the holistic understanding needed to identify and implement the training and awareness methods best suited to your organization.
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Evolved Cellular Network Planning and Optimization for UMTS and LTE
Publication date: August 23, 2010
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Providing an accessible introduction to all stages of planning and optimizing UMTS, HSPA, and LTE cellular networks, this book supplies a comprehensive explanation of the fundamental aspects of current and future cellular networks. Authors Lingyang Song and Jia Shen start with an overview of each type of network, including basic techniques and channel models. Next, they examine the challenges operators and vendors are likely to face and explains the critical role network planning and optimization play in addressing these challenges. The book details effective system level simulation methods and describes key techniques in planning, troubleshooting, and optimizing these networks.
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Leadership Principles for Project Success
Publication date: August 23, 2010
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Filled with samples, templates, and guidelines that readers can immediately use in their projects, this practical guide covers the five principles of effective project leadership and how they can be applied in daily project work. Based on experience in project management and the literature on leadership, project management, business, systems, and complexity theory, the five principles include building vision, nurturing collaboration, promoting performance, cultivating learning, and ensuring results. Author Thomas Juli explains these principles in simple, nontechnical language and shows how they can set up, manage, and align projects for success.
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ITIL: Service Management Implementation and Operation
Publication date: August 26, 2010
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Filled with first-hand practitioner insights in implementing ITIL in a number of large organizations across industries, Ahmad K. Shuja discusses the key challenges organizations experience as they try to leverage ITIL V3 to achieve desired transformations and approaches that they adopted to address those challenges. The text explains the key components needed to successfully implement, operate, and optimize ITIL service management. The book includes implementation patterns, detailed plans for each of the patterns, and templates and checklists to facilitate the implementation of your transformational efforts..
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Feature Article
Privacy and Its Relation to Cloud-Based Information Systems
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Cloud computing has significant implications for the privacy of personal information as well as for the confidentiality of business and governmental information. Any information stored locally on a computer can be stored in a cloud, including email, word processing documents, spreadsheets, videos, health records, photographs, tax or other financial information, business plans, PowerPoint presentations, accounting information, advertising campaigns, sales numbers, appointment calendars, address books, and more. There has been a good deal of public discussion of the technical architecture of cloud computing and the business models that could support it; however, the debate about the legal and policy issues regarding privacy and confidentiality raised by cloud computing has not kept pace.
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Feature Article
Introducing the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
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ITIL is a set of best practices built around a process model-based view of controlling and managing IT operations. ITIL is considered one set of best practices in the more general field of ITSM. It is important to remember that ITIL is truly a library of books. The "architecture" of ITIL can be thought of as the structure imposed by the titles of the books that describe the best practices. Alternatively, the architecture can be thought of as the set of practices that make up the life cycle that ITIL describes.
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Certified Function Point Specialist Examination Guide
Publication date: July 16, 2010
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Written by active members of the Counting Practices Committee and a past president of the IFPUG, this book provides a complete review of the rules and guidelines prescribed in version 4.3 of the Function Point Counting Practices Manual (CPM). It supplies a fundamental understanding of the IFPUG Functional Size Measurement method and includes helpful tips on how to use the CPM manual during the exam. Complete with two sample exams and detailed examples throughout, this is the ideal study guide for the CFPS examination. Following certification, this is a valuable reference for applying the IFPUG method for sizing proficient software design, development, and deployment.
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Cloud Computing and Software Services: Theory and Techniques
Publication date: July 16, 2010
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Thanks to hardware advances and increasing economic incentives, services delivered from the cloud have expanded past web applications to include storage, raw computing, and access to specialized services. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a model for the delivery of software to the end user in which the developer provides maintenance, tends to daily technical needs, and provides support. Under the SaaS model, software can be delivered to home consumers and businesses of any size. Moving from basic concepts to research findings and future directions, this complete reference gathers the input of top experts to provide the technical details needed to develop and maintain a state-of-the-art service.
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Implementing the Project Management Balanced Scorecard
Publication date: July 22, 2010
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Business managers have long known the power of the Balanced Scorecard in executing corporate strategy. This book shows how you too can use this framework to meet strategic objectives. It supplies valuable insight into the project management process as a whole as well as detailed explanations on how to implement the balanced scorecard to measure and manage performance and projects. It investigates numerous sample scorecards, metrics, and techniques and includes a plethora of resources in its appendices and on the accompanying CD, including instructions for developing a measurement program, a full metrics guide, a sample project plan, and a set of project management fill-in forms.
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Enterprise Systems Engineering: Advances in the Theory and Practice
Publication date: July 23, 2010
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With coverage ranging from the complex characteristics and behaviors of enterprises to the challenges they pose for engineering and technology, this book examines the impacts of enterprise processes and leading-edge technologies on the evolution of an enterprise. It discusses new and emerging modes of thought that are increasingly being recognized as essential to successful systems engineering, defining and examining key building blocks of this evolving field. It addresses the issues of the changing nature of SE, lays out a recommended direction for the future, and provides a unified basis for moving toward a mature discipline with the expanded scope.
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Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, Second Edition
Publication date: July 23, 2010
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This guide gives you a starting point and an all-in-one resource for building an awareness program for your organization. Rebecca Herold applies knowledge obtained through her work in education, creating a comprehensive resource of nearly everything involved with managing an infosec and privacy training course. This book includes examples and tools from a wide range of businesses, enabling you to select effective components that will benefit your organization. You'll progress from the inception of an education program through development, implementation, delivery, and evaluation.
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Cloud Computing Strategies
Publication date: July 26, 2010
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A guide to managing a cloud project, this book illustrates how to take advantage of cloud computing and align it with business and IT strategies. It assesses cloud computing technologies and demonstrates how to determine requirements and implement cloud to meet the goals and objectives of IT and business. The book examines such crucial issues as privacy, security, and ownership of information assets. It also provides valuable tips on how to manage the relationship with cloud vendors and shows how to successfully transition from legacy systems to the cloud.
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Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK, Second Edition
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This officially sanctioned resource is the best and most up-to-date study guide available for those seeking CISSP certification. Offering a compendium of information security topics, the book is detailed enough to also serve as an authoritative resource for those executives or organizational managers seeking to maintain or improve security measures. The book is packaged with a CD-ROM, which includes sample exams that simulate the actual exam, providing the same number and types of questions with the same allotment of time. It even grades the exam, provides correct answers, and identifies areas where more study is needed.
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Information Security Management Handbook, 2010 CD-ROM Edition
Publication date: June 15, 2010
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Containing the complete contents of every volume since 1998, the Information Security Management Handbook is now available on CD-ROM. You get a resource that is lightweight and portable, linked and searchable by keyword, organized under the CISSP CBK domains, and with exportable text or hard copy available at the click of a mouse. In addition, it provides an extra volume's worth of information that you will find nowhere else.
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Information Security Management Handbook, Sixth Edition
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The Information Security Management Handbook is the premier reference for information security practitioners and an essential document for conducting the intense review necessary to prepare for the CISSP exam. Now completely revised and updated and in its sixth edition, the handbook maps to the ten domains of the Information Security Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) and provides a complete understanding of all the items in it. This is a "must have" book for preparing for the CISSP exam and as a comprehensive, up-to-date reference.
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IT Today
Information Security Today
In the News
July 22, 2010 -- GAO: Challenges In Federal Agencies' Use of Web 2.0 Technologies
July 20, 2010 -- GAO: OMB's Dashboard Has Increased Transparency and Oversight, but Improvements Needed
July 14, 2010 -- Cybercriminals Increase Effectiveness with Multi-stage Attacks
July 09, 2010 -- HHS Strengthens Health Information Privacy and Security through New Rules
iPhone/iPad DevCon
September 27 to 29 in San Diego
The iPhone iPad Developers Conference is the world's premier independent event dedicated to building and marketing apps for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The format includes over 45 technical classes, workshops and breakout classes. It is also the first major developer conference after the release of iPhone OS4. Auerbach customers can receive a $100 discount off the Full Event Passport or gain free admission to the exhibits* by inserting the code MEDIASPONSOR when prompted on the eRegistration page linked from www.iphonedevcon.com.
*This offer is for first time registrants only and cannot be combined with other offers.
SCIPP International
SCIPP International delivers information security awareness training and certification programs for enterprises throughout the world with a focus on increasing understanding and instilling positive behavioral changes as they relate to protecting information assets.
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