Demystifying Cryptography with OpenSSL 3.0. Discover the best techniques to enhance your network security with OpenSSL 3.0

Alexei Khlebnikov, Jarle Adolfsen

Security and networking are essential features of software today. The modern internet is full of worms, Trojan horses, men-in-the-middle, and other threats. This is why maintaining security is more important than ever.OpenSSL is one of the most widely used and essential open source projects on the internet for this purpose. If you are a software developer, system administrator, network security engineer, or DevOps specialist, you’ve probably stumbled upon this toolset in the past – but how do you make the most out of it? With the help of this book, you will learn the most important features of OpenSSL, and gain insight into its full potential.This book contains step-by-step explanations of essential cryptography and network security concepts, as well as practical examples illustrating the usage of those concepts. You’ll start by learning the basics, such as how to perform symmetric encryption and calculate message digests. Next, you will discover more about cryptography: MAC and HMAC, public and private keys, and digital signatures. As you progress, you will explore best practices for using X.509 certificates, public key infrastructure, and TLS connections.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use the most popular features of OpenSSL, allowing you to implement cryptography and TLS in your applications and network infrastructure.

Practical Module Development for Prestashop 8. Create modern, customizable, and dynamic online stores using efficient modules

Louis AUTHIE

After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code. This migration brought about significant changes for developers, from routine maintenance to module development. Practical Module Development for PrestaShop 8 is curated to help you explore the system architecture, including migrated and non-migrated controllers, with a concise data structure overview. You’ll understand how hooks enable module customization and optimize the CMS.Through the creation of seven modules, you’ll learn about the structure of modules, hook registration, the creation of front-office controllers, and Symfony back-office controllers. By using Doctrine entities, services, CQRS, grids, and forms, you’ll be guided through the creation of standard, payment and carrier modules. Additionally, you'll customize and override themes to achieve your desired e-commerce store look.By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to provide modern solutions with PrestaShop that meet client requirements.

Nagios Core Administration Cookbook. The ideal book for System Administrators who want to move their network monitoring to an advanced level. This book covers the powerful features and flexibility of Nagios Core, and its recipes can be applied to virtually any network

Tom Ryder

Network monitoring requires significantly more than just pinging hosts. This cookbook will help you to comprehensively test your networks' major functions on a regular basis.Nagios Core Administration Cookbook will show you how to use Nagios Core as a monitoring framework that understands the layers and subtleties of the network for intelligent monitoring and notification behaviour. Nagios Core Administration Guide introduces the reader to methods of extending Nagios Core into a network monitoring solution. The book begins by covering the basic structure of hosts, services, and contacts and then goes on to discuss advanced usage of checks and notifications, and configuring intelligent behaviour with network paths and dependencies. The cookbook emphasizes using Nagios Core as an extensible monitoring framework. By the end of the book, you will learn that Nagios Core is capable of doing much more than pinging a host or to check if websites respond.

Industrializing Financial Services with DevOps. Proven 360° DevOps operating model practices for enabling a multi-speed bank

Spyridon Maniotis

In recent years, large financial services institutions have been embracing the concept of DevOps in the core of their digital transformation strategies. This audiobook is inspired by real enterprise DevOps adoptions in the financial services industry and provides a comprehensive proven practice guide on how large corporate organizations can evolve their DevOps operating model.The audiobook starts by outlining the fundamentals comprising a complete DevOps operating model. It continues with a zoom in on those fundamentals, combining adoption frameworks with real-life examples. You’ll cover the three main themes underpinning the audiobook’s approach that include the concepts of 360°, at relevance, and speeds. You’ll explore how a bank’s corporate and technology strategy links to its enterprise DevOps evolution. The audiobook also provides a rich array of proven practices on how to design and create a harmonious 360° DevOps operating model which should be enabled and adopted at relevance in a multi-speed context. It comes packed with real case studies and examples from the financial services industry that you can adopt in your organization and context.By the end of this audiobook, you will have plenty of inspiration that you can take back to your organization and be able to apply the learning from pitfalls and success stories covered in the audiobook.

Empowering Marketing and Sales with HubSpot. Take your business to a new level with HubSpot's inbound marketing, SEO, analytics, and sales tools

Resa Gooding

Empowering Marketing and Sales with HubSpot is your comprehensive solution to using HubSpot to achieve your business goals with a flexible and lean approach. With this audiobook, you’ll implement out-of-the-box solutions provided by HubSpot for sales and marketing professionals using all the tools needed to effectively manage your business campaigns, sales, and marketing automation processes.This audiobook will take you through steps to ensure your investment in HubSpot pays off from Day 1. You’ll learn how to set up HubSpot correctly and understand how to generate quick wins for your organization. Next, you will work with important HubSpot tools for SEO, social media, and ads. The audiobookbook will also show you how to use HubSpot for conversational marketing and create a marketing funnel using HubSpot’s lead capture and engagement tools. In addition to this, you will get to grips with building custom reports, dashboards, and notifications to stay on top of company marketing goals. Later, you will learn how to use HubSpot for inbound marketing and for every type of business, such as manufacturing, agriculture, and eCommerce.By the end of this HubSpot audiobook, you will have the skills you need to be able to set up effective marketing campaigns and leverage the insights gleaned from sales efforts using just one platform.

Instant Magento Shipping How-to. Making Magento shipping settings work for your business

Robert Kent

There is nothing worse for a customer than paying for an item online and never receiving it. As store owners, it is your responsibility to make sure each order is processed correctly, and more importantly—shipped. Configured correctly, Magento's shipping settings will not only make your lives as vendors much easier, but will also, through good service, keep customers coming back for more.Instant Magento Shipping How-to is a comprehensive guide on how to set up your Magento Shipping configuration. This book will also broaden your knowledge of the various systems within Magento that impact upon the shipping settings.Instant Magento Shipping How-to will walk you through the steps required to conduct the initial configuration to allow shipping for your products, taking into account Tax settings and the different product types. Magento's administration panel is a bit of a daunting system. Being able to customise all of Magento's shipping settings is what makes the difference between a store that can take orders and ship them and a store that delivers on all levels.

Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100. Get certified with ease while learning how to develop highly effective cybersecurity strategies

Dwayne Natwick, Rod Trent

Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100 is a comprehensive guide that will help cybersecurity professionals design and evaluate the cybersecurity architecture of Microsoft cloud services. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you’ll have everything you need to pass the SC-100 exam.This audiobook will take you through designing a strategy for a cybersecurity architecture and evaluating the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) of the architecture. This will include cloud-only and hybrid infrastructures, where you’ll learn how to protect using the principles of zero trust, along with evaluating security operations and the overall security posture. To make sure that you are able to take the SC-100 exam with confidence, the last chapter of this audiobook will let you test your knowledge with a mock exam and practice questions.By the end of this audiobook, you’ll have the knowledge you need to plan, design, and evaluate cybersecurity for Microsoft cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and pass the SC-100 exam with flying colors.

Mastering Chef Provisioning. Render your entire infrastructure as code with Chef

Earl Waud

This book will show you the best practices to describe your entire infrastructure as code. With the help of this book you can expand your knowledge of Chef because and implement robust and scalable automation solutions. You can automate and document every aspect of your network, from the hardware to software, middleware, and all your containers. You will become familiar with the Chef’s Chef Provisioning tool. You will be able to make a perfect model system where everything is represented as code beneath your fingertips.Make the best possible use of your resources, and deliver infrastructure as code, making it as versionable, testable and repeatable as application software