Cyber Security Kill Chain - Tactics and Strategies. Breaking down the cyberattack process and responding to threats

Gourav Nagar, Shreyas Kumar, Rohit Ghai

Gain a strategic edge in cybersecurity by mastering the systematic approach to identifying and responding to cyber threats through a detailed exploration of the cyber kill chain framework. This guide walks you through each stage of the attack, from reconnaissance and weaponization to exploitation, command and control (C2), and actions on objectives. Written by cybersecurity leaders Gourav Nagar, Director of Information Security at BILL Holdings, with prior experience at Uber and Apple, and Shreyas Kumar, Professor of Practice at Texas A&M, and former expert at Adobe and Oracle, this book helps enhance your cybersecurity posture. You’ll gain insight into the role of threat intelligence in boosting the cyber kill chain, explore the practical applications of the framework in real-world scenarios, and see how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing threat detection. You’ll also learn future-proofing strategies and get ready to counter sophisticated threats like supply chain attacks and living-off-the-land attacks, and the implications of quantum computing on cybersecurity.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the strategic understanding and skills needed to protect your organization's digital infrastructure in the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity.

Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification Guide. A comprehensive study guide to Google Cloud concepts and technologies

Bruno Beraldo Rodrigues

To thrive in today's world, leaders and technologists must understand how technology shapes businesses. As organizations shift from self-hosted to cloud-native solutions, embracing serverless systems, strategizing data use, and defining monetization becomes imperative. The Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification Guide lays a solid foundation of industry knowledge, focused on the Google Cloud platform and the innovative ways in which customers leverage its technologies.The book starts by helping you grasp the essence of digital transformation within the Google Cloud context. You’ll then cover core components of the platform, such as infrastructure and application modernization, data innovation, and best practices for environment management and security. With a series of practice exam questions included, this book ensures that you build comprehensive knowledge and prepare to certify as a Google Cloud Digital Leader. Going beyond the exam essentials, you’ll also explore how companies are modernizing infrastructure, data ecosystems, and teams in order to capitalize on new market opportunities through platform expertise, best practices, and real-world scenarios.By the end of this book, you'll have learned everything you need to pass the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification exam and have a reference guide for future requirements.

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development. Create highly engaging and interactive e-learning courses with Moodle 3 - Fourth Edition

Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy toinstall and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way.This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want tosupport traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distancee-learning courses, this book will prove to be a powerful resource throughoutyour use of Moodle.You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer.By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, andthought processes that go into developing a successful course.

SELinux Cookbook. Over 70 hands-on recipes to develop fully functional policies to confine your applications and users using SELinux

Sven Vermeulen

Gradle Dependency Management

Hubert Klein Ikkink

Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation. Create custom Validation Rules for structured diagrams and increase the accuracy of your business information with Visio 2010 Premium Edition

David John Parker, David Parker

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming program using vector graphics, which ultimately allows business professionals to explore and communicate complex information more effectively. Through various visual representations, Visio enables complicated data to be presented in a clear, communicative, and data-connected way. Therefore, productivity is increased by utilizing the wide variety of diagrams that can convey information at a glance, as data can be understood and acted upon quickly. This book enables business developers to unleash the full potential of Diagram Validation that Visio 2010 Premium Edition has to offer.This focused tutorial will enable you to get to grips with Diagram Validation in Visio 2010 Premium Edition to the fullest extent, enabling powerful automatic diagram verification based on custom logic and assuring correct and compliant diagrams. You will learn how to create and publish Rules, and use the ShapeSheet to write formulae. There is a special focus on extending and enhancing the capabilities of Visio 2010 diagram validation, and on features that are not found in the out-of-the-box product, like installing and using a new Rules Tools add-in, complete with source code, reviewing the new diagramming rules in flowchart and BPMN templates, and creating your own enhanced Data Flow Model Diagram template, complete with Validation Rules.The book begins by covering the basic functions of Visio 2010, and then dives deep into showing you how to formulate your own Validation Rules and understand the Visio Object Model. ShapeSheet functions are explored in detail, as are creating Validation Rule Sets and Rules, and visualizing issues, with practical demonstrations along the way. Other content includes building a Rules Tools add-in using C#, creating test and filter expressions, and publishing Validation Rules for others to use. Finally, the book considers the creation and implementation of a new RuleSet for Data Flow Model Diagrams with a worked example.By following the practical and immediately deployable examples found in the book, you will successfully learn both how to use the features of Microsoft Visio 2010, and how to extend the functionality provided in the box.

Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras. Apply DL, GANs, VAEs, deep RL, unsupervised learning, object detection and segmentation, and more - Second Edition

Rowel Atienza

Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras, Second Edition is a completely updated edition of the bestselling guide to the advanced deep learning techniques available today. Revised for TensorFlow 2.x, this edition introduces you to the practical side of deep learning with new chapters on unsupervised learning using mutual information, object detection (SSD), and semantic segmentation (FCN and PSPNet), further allowing you to create your own cutting-edge AI projects.Using Keras as an open-source deep learning library, the book features hands-on projects that show you how to create more effective AI with the most up-to-date techniques.Starting with an overview of multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), the book then introduces more cutting-edge techniques as you explore deep neural network architectures, including ResNet and DenseNet, and how to create autoencoders. You will then learn about GANs, and how they can unlock new levels of AI performance.Next, you’ll discover how a variational autoencoder (VAE) is implemented, and how GANs and VAEs have the generative power to synthesize data that can be extremely convincing to humans. You'll also learn to implement DRL such as Deep Q-Learning and Policy Gradient Methods, which are critical to many modern results in AI.

NumPy: Beginner's Guide. Build efficient, high-speed programs using the high-performance NumPy mathematical library

Ivan Idris

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x. Develop your first interactive 2D platformer game by learning the fundamentals of C# - Second Edition

Terry Norton, Greg Lukosek, Grzegorz Lukosek, Andreas Oehlke

Unity is a cross-platform game engine that is used to develop 2D and 3D video games. Unity 5 is the latest version, released in March 2015, and adds a real-time global illumination to the games, and its powerful new features help to improve a game’s efficiency.This book will get you started with programming behaviors in C# so you can create 2D games in Unity. You will begin by installing Unity and learning about its features, followed by creating a C# script. We will then deal with topics such as unity scripting for you to understand how codes work so you can create and use C# variables and methods. Moving forward, you will find out how to create, store, and retrieve data from collection of objects. You will also develop an understanding of loops and their use, and you’ll perform object-oriented programming. This will help you to turn your idea into a ready-to-code project and set up a Unity project for production. Finally, you will discover how to create the GameManager class to manage the game play loop, generate game levels, and develop a simple UI for the game.By the end of this book, you will have mastered the art of applying C# in Unity.

Learning Bayesian Models with R. Become an expert in Bayesian Machine Learning methods using R and apply them to solve real-world big data problems

Hari Manassery Koduvely

MCSA Windows Server 2016 Certification Guide: Exam 70-741. The ultimate guide to becoming MCSA certified

Sasha Kranjac, Vladimir Stefanovic

MCSA: Windows Server 2016 is one of the most sought-after certifications for IT professionals which include working with Windows Server and performing administrative tasks around it. It targets Exam 70-740, Exam 70-741, Exam 70-742 and Exam 70-743 certifications and the demand for these certifications is increasingly high.This book will start with installation, upgrade and migration to Windows Server 2016, cover imaging and deployment and proceed with High Availability and Clustering. Then we will deep dive into fundamental concepts like Core networking, DNS, DHCP, Storage and proceed to Hyper-V, Network Access and Distributed File System. It will also explain Advanced Networking topics such as Software Defined Networking and High-Performance Networking. Furthermore, it will also cover advanced Identity topics in Windows Server 2016 such as Active Directory installation and configuration, Group Policy, Active Directory Certificate Services, and Active Directory Federation Services and Rights Management. Towards the end of this book, test questions and mock preparation items will help in preparing for the certifications with more ease.By the end of this book, you will be able to complete MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification with more confidence.

Mastering F#. Click here to enter text

Alfonso García-Caro Núnez, Suhaib Fahad

F# is a multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming language properties. Now adopted in a wide range of application areas and is supported both by industry-leading companies who provide professional tools and by an active open community, F# is rapidly gaining popularity as it emerges in digital music advertising, creating music-focused ads for Spotify, Pandora, Shazam, and anywhere on the web. This book will guide you through the basics and will then help you master F#. The book starts by explaining how to use F# with Visual Studio, file ordering, and the differences between F# and C# in terms of usage. It moves on to explain the functional core of F# such as data types, type declarations, immutability, strong type interference, pattern matching, records, F# data structures, sequence expressions, and lazy evaluation. Next, the book takes you through imperative and asynchronous programming, F# type providers, applications, and testing in F#. Finally, we look into using F# with distributed programming and using F# as a suitable language for data science. In short, this book will help you learn F# for real-world applications and increase your productivity with functional programming.

Business Intelligence Career Master Plan. Launch and advance your BI career with proven techniques and actionable insights

Eduardo Chavez, Danny Moncada, Ravi Bapna

Navigating the challenging path of a business intelligence career requires you to consider your expertise, interests, and skills. Business Intelligence Career Master Plan explores key skills like stacks, coursework, certifications, and interview advice, enabling you to make informed decisions about your BI journey.You’ll start by assessing the different roles in BI and matching your skills and career with the tech stack. You’ll then learn to build taxonomy and a data story using visualization types. Additionally, you’ll explore the fundamentals of programming, frontend development, backend development, software development lifecycle, and project management, giving you a broad view of the end-to-end BI process. With the help of the author’s expert advice, you’ll be able to identify what subjects and areas of study are crucial and would add significant value to your skill set.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to make an informed decision on which of the myriad paths to choose in your business intelligence journey based on your skill set and interests.

Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook. More than 140 real-life, hands-on recipes and tips to install, deploy, administer, and maintain any VoIP/Unified Communications solution based on Elastix

Gerardo Barajas Puente, Gerardo B Puente

Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices. Mobile phones and tablets enhance our lives, but they also make you and your family vulnerable to cyber-attacks or theft. This clever guide will help you secure your devices and know what to do if the worst happens

Darla Nykamp, Joseph Anderson, Jayasree Nampalli, Mari Heiser, ...

The threat of hacking may be the most damaging on the internet. Mobile technology is changing the way we live, work, and play, but it can leave your personal information dangerously exposed. Your online safety is at risk and the threat of information being stolen from your device is at an all- time high. Your identity is yours, yet it can be compromised if you don't manage your phone or mobile device correctly.Gain the power to manage all your mobile devices safely. With the help of this guide you can ensure that your data and that of your family is safe. The threat to your mobile security is growing on a daily basis and this guide may just be the help you need.Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices will teach you how to recognize, protect against, and recover from hacking attempts and outline the clear and present threats to your online identity posed by the use of a mobile device.In this guide you will discover just how vulnerable unsecured devices can be, and explore effective methods of mobile device management and identity protection to ensure your data's security. There will be special sections detailing extra precautions to ensure the safety of family members and how to secure your device for use at work.

WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints. Create a variety of exciting sites for e-commerce, networking, video streaming, and more, using WordPress

Sarah Soward, Heather Wallace, Tim Nolte, RACHEL MCCOLLIN