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Ethics in IT Outsourcing
Tandy Gold
Publication date: May 8, 2012; ISBN: 978-1-4398-5062-6
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Focusing on how to apply standards to business outsourcing programs, this book provides a one-stop source for the latest information on outsourcing ethics. It includes coverage of certification programs such as the online ethics training and certification offered by the Code of Ethics and Business Practice Standards for Outsourcing Professionals established by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. The text incorporates an easy-to-apply checklist in the context of ethical principles for outsourcing executives and managers. The author also defines a comprehensive set of ethical program components.
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Projects and Complexity
Francesco Varanini and Walter Ginevri
Publication date: May 9, 2012; ISBN: 978-1-4665-0279-6
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This book introduces a new way of looking at projects and fostering the culture needed to achieve sustainable results. It brings together experts from the academic, military, and business worlds to explore project management in the context of complexity theory and organizations. The book provides a clear understanding of the roots of project management in complexity theory and the human sciences. Exploring seven principles of complexity theory and applying them to project management, it examines project needs and features in terms of success parameters, team and stakeholders’ perspectives, the project manager’s perspective, and the perspectives of theory and practice.
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Machine-to-Machine Marketing (M3) via Anonymous Advertising Apps Anywhere Anytime (A5)
Jesus Mena
Publication date: May 15, 2012; ISBN 978-1-4398-8191-0
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This book presents technologies, software, networks, mechanisms, techniques, and solution providers for advertising now and in the future. It discusses the interactive environments that consist of the web, as well as how to deploy M3 (Machine-to-Machine Marketing) and A5 (Anonymous Advertising Apps Anywhere Anytime). It explains what technologies and solutions providers can be used for executing M3 and provides lists of strategies, technologies, and solutions providers for the marketing technique. Case studies include examples of M3 and A5 implementations.
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Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards
Hassnaa Moustafa and Sherali Zeadally
Publication date: May 23, 2012; ISBN 978-1-4398-7728-9
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With a focus on video and audio-visual services, this book considers different media network architectures along with related protocols and standards. It presents different digital TV technologies along with their deployment architectures, discussing promising media content delivery architectures, including Future Internet, Content Delivery Networks, and Content Centric Networks. The author addresses related technical challenges and standardization efforts. Chapters cover the management of media information and immersive technologies that account for advanced services personalization, immersive technologies architectures and applications, e-health, and e-learning.
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Feature Article
Zeus Targets Cloud Payroll Service to Siphon Money from Enterprises
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Trusteer research that has discovered a Zeus attack that focuses on cloud payroll service providers. In this attack, Zeus captures a screenshot of the payroll services web page when a corporate user whose machine is infected with the Trojan visits this website. This allows Zeus to steal the user id, password, company number and the icon selected by the user for the image-based authentication system. These attacks are designed to route funds to criminals, and bypass industrial strength security controls maintained by larger businesses. The financial losses associated with this type of attack can be significant.
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Feature Article
From Bland and Boring to Captivating and Compelling: What Virtual Leaders Must Know
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Even the most experienced team leaders can make us weep with boredom. They torture us with their monotone narrations of 10-Mb slide decks. They regale us with irrelevant minutiae, while sidestepping the really important stuff. Their meetings are more like monologues, with everyone else listening from the sidelines. And for the most part, they probably imagine they're pretty interesting people.
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The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement
The International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG)
Publication date: April 30, 2012; ISBN: 978-1-4398-6930-7
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Leading software measurement experts share their insight on topics such as measurement programs, function points in measurement, measurement and new technologies, and metrics analysis. Edited by IFPUG's Management and Reporting Committee, the text is intended for IT project managers, process improvement specialists, measurement professionals, and business professionals interacting with IT. Topics covered include cloud computing, agile development, quantitative project management, process improvement, measurement as a tool in accountability, measuring project ROI, metrics for the CIO, value stream mapping, and benchmarking.
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Disasters 2.0: The Application of Social Media Systems for Modern Emergency Management
Adam Crowe
Publication date: April 30, 2012; ISBN: 978-1-4398-7442-4
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Emerging social media and Web 2.0 technologies will continue to have a great impact on the practice and application of the emergency management function in every public safety sector. This volume prepares emergency managers and first responders to successfully apply social media principles in the operations, logistics, planning, finance, and administrative aspects of any given disaster. Using real-life examples, each chapter begins with a list of objectives and includes practitioner profiles showing real people implementing the technology for real solutions. Demonstrating how to effectively apply social media technology to the next crisis, this is must-read book for those charged with disaster management and response.
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Feature Article
The RSA Security Breach 12 Months Later
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It's been 12 months since the security world woke to the news that RSA Security's systems had been compromised and, as the company has reluctantly confirmed, its many tens of millions of SecurID hardware tokens would have to be re-issued to clients. In this article, Andy Kemshall, CTO of SecurEnvoy, reviews the IT security fiasco and what could have been done to prevent the fallout.
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Information Security Management Handbook, 2011 CD-ROM Edition
Publication date: August 26, 2011
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Reflecting the latest changes to information security and the CISSP® Common Body of Knowledge (CBK®), the Information Security Management Handbook, 2011 CD-ROM Edition updates the benchmark Volume 1 with a wealth of new information on mobile device security, adaptive threat defense, Web 2.0, virtualization, data leakage, and governance. Containing the complete contents of Volumes 1, 2,3, and this year’s Volume 4, the 2011 CD-ROM Edition is an authoritative resource that is linked, searchable by keyword, and organized under the CBK® domains. It also includes an extra volume's worth of information that has never appeared in the print editions.
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Encyclopedia of Information Assurance
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The Encyclopedia of Information Assurance is a comprehensive, fully searchable collection of articles and references that cover the wide range of subjects found within the field. This four-volume set is a reliable resource that presents new methods, techniques, and strategies. The entries and illustrations address every meaningful topic in information assurance including risk management, privacy, legal and regulatory compliance, auditing, and digital forensics. Live links are present throughout the online version, enabling in-depth research on any topic covered in the encyclopedia.
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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, 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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