OPNsense Beginner to Professional. Protect networks and build next-generation firewalls easily with OPNsense

Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo

OPNsense is one of the most powerful open source firewalls and routing platforms available. With OPNsense, you can now protect networks using features that were only previously available to closed source commercial firewalls.This book is a practical guide to building a comprehensive network defense strategy using OPNsense. You’ll start with the basics, understanding how to install, configure, and protect network resources using native features and additional OPNsense plugins. Next, you’ll explore real-world examples to gain in-depth knowledge of firewalls and network defense. You’ll then focus on boosting your network defense, preventing cyber threats, and improving your knowledge of firewalling using this open source security platform.By the end of this OPNsense book, you’ll be able to install, configure, and manage the OPNsense firewall by making the most of its features.

The Ansible Workshop. Hands-On Learning For Rapid Mastery

Aymen El Amri

The Ansible Workshop offers a comprehensive journey through the world of Ansible, guiding readers from foundational concepts to advanced applications in automation. Readers delve into creating and managing inventories, an essential aspect of organizing systems for automation.As the journey progresses, the book covers the creation and use of playbooks, providing step-by-step instructions and practical examples. Readers learn how to gather and utilize Ansible facts, debug issues effectively, and manage sensitive data with Ansible Vault. The exploration of Ansible blocks, modules, plugins, and filters further enhances the reader's ability to customize and extend Ansible's functionality.The book then introduces the concept of Ansible roles, enabling readers to structure and reuse their automation tasks efficiently. Performance optimization techniques are also discussed, ensuring that automation workflows are both fast and reliable. The practical applications of Ansible are showcased through chapters on managing Docker and Docker Compose, as well as automating Kubernetes, highlighting Ansible's versatility in modern IT environments. To provide a quick reference and reinforce learning, an Ansible cheat sheet is included, summarizing key commands and concepts.

Hands-On Machine Learning with C++. Build, train, and deploy end-to-end machine learning and deep learning pipelines

Kirill Kolodiazhnyi

C++ can make your machine learning models run faster and more efficiently. This handy guide will help you learn the fundamentals of machine learning (ML), showing you how to use C++ libraries to get the most out of your data. This book makes machine learning with C++ for beginners easy with its example-based approach, demonstrating how to implement supervised and unsupervised ML algorithms through real-world examples.This book will get you hands-on with tuning and optimizing a model for different use cases, assisting you with model selection and the measurement of performance. You’ll cover techniques such as product recommendations, ensemble learning, and anomaly detection using modern C++ libraries such as PyTorch C++ API, Caffe2, Shogun, Shark-ML, mlpack, and dlib. Next, you’ll explore neural networks and deep learning using examples such as image classification and sentiment analysis, which will help you solve various problems. Later, you’ll learn how to handle production and deployment challenges on mobile and cloud platforms, before discovering how to export and import models using the ONNX format.By the end of this C++ book, you will have real-world machine learning and C++ knowledge, as well as the skills to use C++ to build powerful ML systems.

Mastering Cyber Intelligence. Gain comprehensive knowledge and skills to conduct threat intelligence for effective system defense

Jean Nestor M. Dahj

The sophistication of cyber threats, such as ransomware, advanced phishing campaigns, zero-day vulnerability attacks, and advanced persistent threats (APTs), is pushing organizations and individuals to change strategies for reliable system protection. Cyber Threat Intelligence converts threat information into evidence-based intelligence that uncovers adversaries' intents, motives, and capabilities for effective defense against all kinds of threats.This book thoroughly covers the concepts and practices required to develop and drive threat intelligence programs, detailing the tasks involved in each step of the CTI lifecycle. You'll be able to plan a threat intelligence program by understanding and collecting the requirements, setting up the team, and exploring the intelligence frameworks. You'll also learn how and from where to collect intelligence data for your program, considering your organization level. With the help of practical examples, this book will help you get to grips with threat data processing and analysis. And finally, you'll be well-versed with writing tactical, technical, and strategic intelligence reports and sharing them with the community.By the end of this book, you'll have acquired the knowledge and skills required to drive threat intelligence operations from planning to dissemination phases, protect your organization, and help in critical defense decisions.

PlayStation Mobile Development Cookbook. Over 65 recipes that will help you create and develop amazing mobile applications!

Michael Fleischauer

With the PlayStation¬ÆMobile SDK you can create stunning games for the PlayStation¬ÆVita and PlayStation‚ѢCertified devices (PS Certified devices). It includes everything you need to get started, including an IDE for developing your code and even an emulator to test your creations.PlayStation¬ÆMobile Development Cookbook| is an exciting and practical collection of recipes that help you make the most of this exciting new platform. It provides you with everything you need to create complete 2D or 3D games and applications that fully unlock the potential of the SDK.After quickly covering the basics, you'll learn how to utilize input sources like touch, gamepads, and motion controls, and then move on to more advanced content like creating and animating 2D graphics, networking, playing sound effects and music, adding physics, and then finally jumping into the world of 3D.

Modern Android 13 Development Cookbook. Over 70 recipes to solve Android development issues and create better apps with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Madona S. Wambua

Android is a powerful operating system widely used in various devices, phones, TVs, wearables, automobiles, and more. This Android cookbook will teach you how to leverage the latest Android development technologies for creating incredible applications while making effective use of popular Jetpack libraries. You’ll also learn which critical principles to consider when developing Android apps.The book begins with recipes to get you started with the declarative UI framework, Jetpack Compose, and help you with handling UI states, Navigation, Hilt, Room, Wear OS, and more as you learn what's new in modern Android development. Subsequent chapters will focus on developing apps for large screens, leveraging Jetpack’s WorkManager, managing graphic user interface alerts, and tips and tricks within Android studio. Throughout the book, you'll also see testing being implemented for enhancing Android development, and gain insights into harnessing the integrated development environment of Android studio. Finally, you’ll discover best practices for robust modern app development.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build an Android application using the Kotlin programming language and the newest modern Android development technologies, resulting in highly efficient applications.

QlikView Server and Publisher. Written for server administrators, this book guides you step by step through installing, managing, and maintaining QlikView Server and Publisher for your enterprise. It’s the foolproof route to turning information into knowledge

Stephen Redmond

Mastering Linux Shell Scripting. A practical guide to Linux command-line, Bash scripting, and Shell programming - Second Edition

Mokhtar Ebrahim, Andrew Mallett

In this book, you’ll discover everything you need to know to master shell scripting and make informed choices about the elements you employ.Grab your favorite editor and start writing your best Bash scripts step by step. Get to grips with the fundamentals of creating and running a script in normal mode, and in debug mode. Learn about various conditional statements' code snippets, and realize the power of repetition and loops in your shell script. You will also learn to write complex shell scripts. This book will also deep dive into file system administration, directories, and system administration like networking, process management, user authentications, and package installation and regular expressions. Towards the end of the book, you will learn how to use Python as a BASH Scripting alternative. By the end of this book, you will know shell scripts at the snap of your fingers and will be able to automate and communicate with your system with keyboard expressions.