Windows APT Warfare. Identify and prevent Windows APT attacks effectively

Sheng-Hao Ma, Ziv Chang, Federico Maggi

An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a severe form of cyberattack that lies low in the system for a prolonged time and locates and then exploits sensitive information. Preventing APTs requires a strong foundation of basic security techniques combined with effective security monitoring. This book will help you gain a red team perspective on exploiting system design and master techniques to prevent APT attacks. Once you’ve understood the internal design of operating systems, you’ll be ready to get hands-on with red team attacks and, further, learn how to create and compile C source code into an EXE program file. Throughout this book, you’ll explore the inner workings of how Windows systems run and how attackers abuse this knowledge to bypass antivirus products and protection.As you advance, you’ll cover practical examples of malware and online game hacking, such as EXE infection, shellcode development, software packers, UAC bypass, path parser vulnerabilities, and digital signature forgery, gaining expertise in keeping your system safe from this kind of malware.By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to implement the red team techniques that you've learned on a victim's computer environment, attempting to bypass security and antivirus products, to test its defense against Windows APT attacks.

Learning Angular. A practical guide to building web applications with modern Angular - Fifth Edition

Aristeidis Bampakos, Bonnie Brennan, Pablo Deeleman

Angular is an extremely fast, cross-platform JavaScript framework loved by millions. Learning Angular is a comprehensive introduction to the framework from an experienced Angular developer and Google Developer Expert. You’ll learn the Angular way of development as you build a real-world app from the ground up.Updated for Angular 19, this fifth edition tackles landmark changes in Angular after the “Angular Renaissance”. It covers app creation with standalone components, Angular Signals, and the new control flow syntax, while acknowledging differences in approach in older Angular code. You’ll also find a brand-new chapter on optimizing performance with SSR and hydration, as well as revamped content on TypeScript.Angular developers of all experience levels will benefit from this book. It is especially useful if you are new to Angular, as it will help you get to grips with the bare bones of the framework.By the end of this book, you'll be able to create Angular applications with TypeScript from scratch and apply best practices in any Angular codebase.

Tableau Desktop Certified Associate: Exam Guide. Develop your Tableau skills and prepare for Tableau certification with tips from industry experts

Dmitry Anoshin, JC Gillet, Fabian Peri, Radhika Biyani, ...

The Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam measures your knowledge of Tableau Desktop and your ability to work with data and data visualization techniques. This book will help you to become well-versed in Tableau software and use its business intelligence (BI) features to solve BI and analytics challenges.With the help of this book, you'll explore the authors' success stories and their experience with Tableau. You'll start by understanding the importance of Tableau certification and the different certification exams, along with covering the exam format, Tableau basics, and best practices for preparing data for analysis and visualization. The book builds on your knowledge of advanced Tableau topics such as table calculations for solving problems. You'll learn to effectively visualize geographic data using vector maps. Later, you'll discover the analytics capabilities of Tableau by learning how to use features such as forecasting. Finally, you'll understand how to build and customize dashboards, while ensuring they convey information effectively. Every chapter has examples and tests to reinforce your learning, along with mock tests in the last section.By the end of this book, you'll be able to efficiently prepare for the certification exam with the help of mock tests, detailed explanations, and expert advice from the authors.

Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook. Over 90 practical, hands-on recipes to help you build your MicroStrategy business intelligence project, including more than a 100 screencasts with this book and

Davide Moraschi

Business intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is a complete business intelligence platform that covers all the data analysis needs of an enterprise. Scorecards, dashboards, and reports can be explored and delivered on desktop, the Web, mobile devices, and the Cloud. With the latest Visual Insight tool, MicroStrategy brings the power of BI to the business users, allowing them to discover information without the help of IT personnel.Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook covers the full cycle of a BI project with the MicroStrategy platform, from setting up the software to using dashboards in the cloud and on mobile devices. This book uses step-by-step instructions to teach you everything from the very basics to the more advanced topics. We will start by downloading and installing the software and a well-known sample SQL Server database. Then, one brick at a time, we will construct a fully-featured BI solution with a web interface, mobile reporting, and agile analytics.The chapters are ordered by increasing difficulty, and each one builds on top of the preceding chapter so that the learning process is progressive. The examples given in this book are practical, and you will be able to see the immediate result of your efforts. We will first cover setting up the platform, including the creation of the metadata and the different objects that are part of a BI project: tables, attributes, and metrics. Then, we take a look at how to create and analyze reports, charts, documents, and dashboards, as well as how to manipulate data with the desktop application, the web Interface, and an iPad device.The last part of the book is dedicated to advanced topics like the new agile analytics technology from MicroStrategy, where we cover both Visual Insight and MicroStrategy Cloud Express. Whether you are a database developer, data analyst, or a business user, Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook will get you up to speed with one of the most powerful BI platforms on the market with the smallest possible investment of time and money.

Big Data Forensics - Learning Hadoop Investigations. Perform forensic investigations on Hadoop clusters with cutting-edge tools and techniques

Joseph Sremack, Joe Sremack

Learning VMware vCloud Air

Yohan Wadia

Quick Start Kubernetes. Unlock the Full Potential of Kubernetes for Scalable Application Management - Second Edition

Nigel Poulton

Begin with an introduction to Kubernetes, understanding its importance and architecture. These foundational chapters will set the stage for your exploration into Kubernetes' capabilities. As you progress, you'll learn how to set up Kubernetes and containerize an application, equipping you with practical skills for real-world application management.The course continues with a focus on running applications on Kubernetes, where you will delve into self-healing mechanisms, scaling, and performing rolling updates. Each chapter builds on the last, ensuring a seamless learning experience that integrates theoretical knowledge with hands-on practice. You'll understand how Kubernetes maintains application health and performance, providing a robust environment for modern applications.Concluding with advanced operational techniques and future steps, the course prepares you to leverage Kubernetes for continuous development and deployment. Whether you're scaling applications to meet demand or ensuring seamless updates with minimal downtime, you'll be equipped with the skills necessary for efficient and effective Kubernetes management. This course is your gateway to becoming proficient in one of the most essential tools in the DevOps toolkit.

concrete5: Beginner's Guide. concrete5 is a superb content management system and this book will show you how to get going with it. From basic installation through to advanced techniques of customization, it's the perfect primer for web developers. - Second Edition

Remo Laubacher, Concrete5 Project

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 is designed for ease of use, and for users with limited technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page and allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page.concrete5 Beginner's Guide shows you everything you need to get your own site up and running in no time. You will then learn how to change the look of it before you find out all you need to add custom functionality to concrete5.concrete5 Beginner's Guide starts with installation, then you customize the look and feel and continue to add your own functionality. After you've installed and configured your own concrete5 site, we'll have a closer look at themes and integrate a simple layout into concrete5. Afterwards, we're going to build a block from scratch which you can use to manage a news section. We're also going to add a button to our site which can be used to create a PDF document on the fly. This book also covers some examples that show you how to integrate an existing jQuery plugin.concrete5 Beginner's Guide is a book for developers looking to get started with concrete5 in order to create great websites and applications.

Practical Arduino Robotics. A hands-on guide to bringing your robotics ideas to life using Arduino

Lukas Kaul

Every robot needs a “brain,” and the Arduino platform provides an incredibly accessible way to bring your Arduino robot to life. Anyone can easily learn to build and program their own robots with Arduino for hobby and commercial uses, making Arduino-based robots the popular choice for school projects, college courses, and the rapid prototyping of industrial applications!Practical Arduino Robotics is a comprehensive guide that equips you with the necessary skills and techniques that can be applied to various projects and applications, from automating repetitive tasks in a laboratory to building engaging mobile robots.Building on basic knowledge of programming and electronics, this book teaches you how to choose the right components, such as Arduino boards, sensors, and motors, and write effective code for your robotics project, including the use of advanced third-party Arduino libraries and interfaces, such as Analog, SPI, I2C, PWM, and UART. You'll also learn different ways to command your robots wirelessly, such as over Wi-Fi. Finally, with basic to advanced project examples, this book illustrates how to build exciting autonomous robots like a self-balancing telepresence robot.By the end of this book, you'll be able to design and create your own custom robots for a wide variety of applications.

Becoming an Agile Software Architect. Strategies, practices, and patterns to help architects design continually evolving solutions

Rajesh R V

Many organizations have embraced Agile methodologies to transform their ability to rapidly respond to constantly changing customer demands. However, in this melee, many enterprises often neglect to invest in architects by presuming architecture is not an intrinsic element of Agile software development.Since the role of an architect is not pre-defined in Agile, many organizations struggle to position architects, often resulting in friction with other roles or a failure to provide a clear learning path for architects to be productive.This book guides architects and organizations through new Agile ways of incrementally developing the architecture for delivering an uninterrupted, continuous flow of values that meets customer needs. You'll explore various aspects of Agile architecture and how it differs from traditional architecture. The book later covers Agile architects' responsibilities and how architects can add significant value by positioning themselves appropriately in the Agile flow of work. Through examples, you'll also learn concepts such as architectural decision backlog,the last responsible moment, value delivery, architecting for change, DevOps, and evolutionary collaboration.By the end of this Agile book, you'll be able to operate as an architect in Agile development initiatives and successfully architect reliable software systems.

SoapUI Cookbook. Boost your SoapUI capabilities to test RESTful and SOAP APIs with over 65 hands-on recipes

Rupert Anderson

Data Engineering with AWS Cookbook. A recipe-based approach to help you tackle data engineering problems with AWS services

Trâm Ngoc Pham, Gonzalo Herreros González, Viquar Khan, Huda Nofal

Performing data engineering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) combines AWS's scalable infrastructure with robust data processing tools, enabling efficient data pipelines and analytics workflows. This comprehensive guide to AWS data engineering will teach you all you need to know about data lake management, pipeline orchestration, and serving layer construction.Through clear explanations and hands-on exercises, you’ll master essential AWS services such as Glue, EMR, Redshift, QuickSight, and Athena. Additionally, you’ll explore various data platform topics such as data governance, data quality, DevOps, CI/CD, planning and performing data migration, and creating Infrastructure as Code. As you progress, you will gain insights into how to enrich your platform and use various AWS cloud services such as AWS EventBridge, AWS DataZone, and AWS SCT and DMS to solve data platform challenges.Each recipe in this book is tailored to a daily challenge that a data engineer team faces while building a cloud platform. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed in AWS data engineering and have gained proficiency in key AWS services and data processing techniques. You will develop the necessary skills to tackle large-scale data challenges with confidence.

VMware vCloud Security. If you're familiar with Vmware vCloud, this is the book you need to take your security capabilities to the ultimate level. With a comprehensive, problem-solving approach it will help you create a fully protected private cloud

Prasenjit Sarkar, Prasenjit Sarkar

Security is a major concern, in particular now that everything is moving to the cloud. A private cloud is a cloud computing platform built on your own hardware and software. The alternative is to deploy the services you need on a public cloud infrastructure provided by an external supplier such as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Cloud, or HP Public Cloud. While a public cloud can afford greater flexibility, a private cloud gives you the advantage of greater control over the entire stack.VMware vCloud Security focuses on some critical security risks, such as the application level firewall and firewall zone, virus and malware attacks on cloud virtual machines, and data security compliance on any VMware vCloud-based private cloud. Security administrators sometimes deploy its components incorrectly, or sometimes cannot see the broader picture and where the vCloud security products fit in. This book is focused on solving those problems using VMware vCloud and the vCloud Networking and Security product suite, which includes vCloud Networking and Security App, vShield Endpoint, and vCloud Networking and Security Data Security.Ensuring the security and compliance of any applications, especially those that are business critical, is a crucial step in your journey to the cloud. You will be introduced to security roles in VMware vCloud Director, integration of LDAP Servers with vCloud, and security hardening of vCloud Director. We'll then walk through a hypervisor-based firewall that protects applications in the virtual datacenter from network-based attacks. We'll create access control policies based on logical constructs such as VMware vCenter Server containers and VMware vCloud Networking and Security security groups but not just physical constructs, such as IP addresses. You'll learn about the architecture of EPSEC and how to implement it. Finally, we will understand how to define data security policies, run scans, and analyze results.

Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook. Explore the new features of Zabbix 6 for designing, building, and maintaining your Zabbix setup - Second Edition

Nathan Liefting, Brian van Baekel, Dmitry Lambert

This updated second edition of the Zabbix 6 IT Infrastructure Monitoring Cookbook brings you new recipes, updated with Zabbix 6 functionality. You'll learn how to set up Zabbix with built-in high availability, use the improved Business Service Monitoring, set up automatic reporting, and create advanced triggers. Zabbix offers useful insights into your infrastructure performance and issues and enables you to enhance your monitoring setup with its powerful features. This book covers hands-on, easy-to-follow recipes for using Zabbix 6 to monitor effectively the performance of devices and applications over the network.You'll start by working your way through the installation and most prominent features of Zabbix and make the right design choices for building a scalable and easily manageable environment. This Zabbix book contains recipes for building items and triggers for different types of monitoring, building templates, and using Zabbix proxies. Next, you'll use the Zabbix API for customization and manage your Zabbix server and database efficiently. Finally, you'll find quick solutions to the common and not-so-common problems that you may encounter in your Zabbix monitoring work.By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Zabbix for all your monitoring needs and build a solid Zabbix setup by leveraging its key functionalities.

LLM Prompt Engineering for Developers. The Art and Science of Unlocking LLMs' True Potential

Aymen El Amri

LLM Prompt Engineering For Developers begins by laying the groundwork with essential principles of natural language processing (NLP), setting the stage for more complex topics. It methodically guides readers through the initial steps of understanding how large language models work, providing a solid foundation that prepares them for the more intricate aspects of prompt engineering.As you proceed, the book transitions into advanced strategies and techniques that reveal how to effectively interact with and utilize these powerful models. From crafting precise prompts that enhance model responses to exploring innovative methods like few-shot and zero-shot learning, this resource is designed to unlock the full potential of language model technology.This book not only teaches the technical skills needed to excel in the field but also addresses the broader implications of AI technology. It encourages thoughtful consideration of ethical issues and the impact of AI on society. By the end of this book, readers will master the technical aspects of prompt engineering & appreciate the importance of responsible AI development, making them well-rounded professionals ready to focus on the advancement of this cutting-edge technology.

Enterprise GENERATIVE AI Well-Architected Framework & Patterns. An Architect's Real-life Guide to Adopting Generative AI in Enterprises at Scale

Suvoraj Biswas

The course begins with an insightful introduction to the burgeoning field of Generative AI, laying down a robust framework for understanding its applications within the AWS ecosystem.The course focuses on meticulously detailing the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework—Operational Excellence, Security, Compliance, Reliability, and Cost Optimization. Each module is crafted to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of these essential areas, integrating Generative AI technologies. You'll learn how to navigate the complexities of securing AI systems, ensuring they comply with legal and regulatory standards, and designing them for unparalleled reliability. Practical sessions on cost optimization strategies for AI projects will empower you to deliver value without compromising on performance or scalability. Furthermore, the course delves into System Architecture Excellence, emphasizing the importance of robust design principles in creating effective Generative AI solutions.The course wraps up by offering a forward-looking perspective on the Common Architectural Pattern for FM/LLM Integration & Adoption within the AWS framework. You'll gain hands-on experience with AWS solutions specifically tailored for Generative AI applications, including Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, among others.