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A Guide to Publishing for Academics Inside the Publish or Perish Phenomenon

A Guide to Publishing for Academics Inside the Publish or Perish Phenomenon

Most academics still wrestle with the publish or perish phenomenon. Based on Dr. Liebowitz’s 25 years serving as the editor-in-chief of a leading international journal along with insights from some of the most knowledgeable journal editors this book shares key lessons learned to help new professors doctoral students and practitioner–scholars increase their chances of being published in selective refereed international journals. It focuses on the key practices needed to ensure journal publication with interesting cases and helpful tips sprinkled throughout the book. A Guide to Publishing for Academics provides useful knowledge from leading journal editors of both traditional and online journals as well as various tiers of journals. Although the focus is mainly in the business and IT areas much of the guidance provided can cross into other fields. The book contains interesting vignettes and do’s and don’ts so that potential authors can understand what goes on behind the scenes once the manuscript arrives on the journal editor’s desk. The book provides constructive guidance on choosing what and where to publish what to consider when writing a title for a paper how to prepare and submit journal manuscripts and how to position a paper for publication. It also has valuable information for current and future journal editors including models of editing and editorial boards editorial coaching advice and editing smart practices. With the information in this book the next generation of academics and practitioner–scholars will be well equipped to overcome the publish or perish phenomenon. | A Guide to Publishing for Academics Inside the Publish or Perish Phenomenon

GBP 56.99
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Business Analysis Requirements and Project Management A Guide for Computing Students

Business Analysis Requirements and Project Management A Guide for Computing Students

IT projects emerge from a business need. In practice software developers must accomplish two big things before an IT project can begin: find out what you need to do (i. e. analyse business requirements) and plan out how to do it (i. e. project management). The biggest problem in IT projects is delivering the wrong product because IT people do not understand what business people require. This practical textbook teaches computer science students how to manage and deliver IT projects by linking business and IT requirements with project management in an incremental and straightforward approach. Business Analysis Requirements and Project Management: A Guide for Computing Students presents an approach to analysis management that scales the business perspective. It takes a business process view of a business proposal as a model and explains how to structure a technical problem into a recognisable pattern with problem frames. It shows how to identify core transactions and model them as use cases to create a requirements table useful to designers and coders. Linked to the analysis are three management tools: the product breakdown structure (PBS) the Gantt chart and the Kanban board. The PBS is derived in part from the problem frame. The Gantt chart emerges from the PBS and ensures the key requirements are addressed by reference to use cases. The Kanban board is especially useful in Task Driven Development which the text covers. This textbook consists of two interleaving parts and features a single case study. Part one addresses the business and requirements perspective. The second integrates core project management approaches and explains how both requirements and management are connected. The remainder of the book is appendices the first of which provides solutions to the exercises presented in each chapter. The second appendix puts together much of the documentation for the case study into one place. The case study presents a real-word business scenario to expose students to professional practice. | Business Analysis Requirements and Project Management A Guide for Computing Students

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Systematic Strategic Planning A Comprehensive Framework for Implementation Control and Evaluation

Systematic Strategic Planning A Comprehensive Framework for Implementation Control and Evaluation

Strategic planning outlines the path between the current status of the business and the desired status. It requires the business to identify its objectives and goals and then make the correct decisions to achieve these objectives and goals. This book provides a complete set of practical strategic planning techniques and tools. It explains how and in what circumstances to use particular tools and how to target them to achieve effective results. Systematic Strategic Planning: A Comprehensive Framework for Implementation Control and Evaluation describes a framework of phases through which each project passes a pattern of procedures for straight-forward planning and the fundamentals involved in any strategic planning project. Designed to be simple to understand and easy to use the book presents techniques case studies and working forms to guide you through preparing a strategic plan for your existing or future business. The book is organized into four parts:Part I explains the steps to take before and after starting the strategic planning work. Part II provides the overall framework and characteristics of the simplified and full versions of systematic strategic planning. Part III describes the sections of systematic strategic planning in detail. Part IV provides a framework for implementation control and evaluation functions in a systematic manner. This book is designed to help both experienced strategic planners and other types of professionals who are faced with creating a strategic plan for their business. The processes and techniques described should be universally applicable to any type of business. With the information in this book you will be well-equipped to create effective strategic plans that drive your business forward. | Systematic Strategic Planning A Comprehensive Framework for Implementation Control and Evaluation

GBP 56.99
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Practical AI for Cybersecurity

Practical AI for Cybersecurity

The world of cybersecurity and the landscape that it possesses is changing on a dynamic basis. It seems like that hardly one threat vector is launched new variants of it are already on the way. IT Security teams in businesses and corporations are struggling daily to fight off any cyberthreats that they are experiencing. On top of this they are also asked by their CIO or CISO to model what future Cyberattacks could potentially look like and ways as to how the lines of defenses can be further enhanced. IT Security teams are overburdened and are struggling to find ways in order to keep up with what they are being asked to do. Trying to model the cyberthreat landscape is a very laborious process because it takes a lot of time to analyze datasets from many intelligence feeds. What can be done to accomplish this Herculean task? The answer lies in Artificial Intelligence (AI). With AI an IT Security team can model what the future Cyberthreat landscape could potentially look like in just a matter of minutes. As a result this gives valuable time for them not only to fight off the threats that they are facing but to also come up with solutions for the variants that will come out later. Practical AI for Cybersecurity explores the ways and methods as to how AI can be used in cybersecurity with an emphasis upon its subcomponents of machine learning computer vision and neural networks. The book shows how AI can be used to help automate the routine and ordinary tasks that are encountered by both penetration testing and threat hunting teams. The result is that security professionals can spend more time finding and discovering unknown vulnerabilities and weaknesses that their systems are facing as well as be able to come up with solid recommendations as to how the systems can be patched up quickly.

GBP 44.99
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A Technical Guide to IPSec Virtual Private Networks

A Standard for Enterprise Project Management

A Standard for Enterprise Project Management

Providing structured yet adaptable models of project success within an organization A Standard for Enterprise Project Management explains each of the basic elements needed for project success and integrates them into a balanced life-cycle continuum. It also supplies an inventory of practical policies procedures techniques and templates for consistent management of projects. The book first discusses project authorization and initiation followed by analysis and planning. It then covers execution control and closure. Each phase contains an explanation and an illustration of how to optimize success. Throughout the text the author refers to numerous appendices that constitute both blank and completed templates. He provides details on how to use these tools with an emphasis on balancing the benefits of standardization and the need for flexibility. The accompanying downloadable resources encompass a color version of the book with four bonus features: Quick start with Project 2003 that offers a one-page tutorial and three pages of screen prints designed to quickly generate readable and concise project plans Complex project readiness grid that suggests how to manage intricate interrelationships in a project or program environment Project management competency development grid that outlines a program for developing key skills among project managers within an organization Traceability matrix that illustrates how various levels of requirements and final solutions are interrelated This book offers a painless guide to quickly getting business initiatives out of the clouds and onto the ground. Blending the rigor and discipline of project management with the thoroughness of business analysis it shows how to successfully build complement and enhance project management and business analysis in any organization.

GBP 160.00
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Systems Engineering for Projects Achieving Positive Outcomes in a Complex World

Systems Engineering for Projects Achieving Positive Outcomes in a Complex World

Systems engineering has been applied to some of the most important projects of our time including those that have helped humanity explore the world and the universe expand our technical abilities and enhance the quality of human life. Without formal training in systems engineering the discipline is often difficult to understand and apply and its use within projects is often confusing. Systems Engineering for Projects: Achieving Positive Outcomes in a Complex World provides an approach that utilizes a combination of the most effective processes from both project management and systems engineering disciplines in a simplified and straightforward manner. The processes described in the book are lightweight flexible and tailorable. They provide the shortest path to success in projects across the entire project life cycle from research to operations and from simple to the most complex. The book also addresses how this methodology can be used in a continually adapting and changing world as projects span disciplines and become even more interconnected across all areas of human existence. Each chapter includes diagrams templates summary lists a case study and a thought-provoking question and answer section that assists readers in immediate application of the material to their own projects. The book is a project manager’s resource for understanding how to directly apply essential processes to projects in a way that increases the probability of achieving success. It is a comprehensive go-to manual on the application of systems engineering processes to projects of all types and complexity. | Systems Engineering for Projects Achieving Positive Outcomes in a Complex World

GBP 42.99
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Technologies for Sustainable Global Higher Education

Technologies for Sustainable Global Higher Education

Digital technologies are influencing the way we learn live work and exist in different contexts of society in the digital age. There are a variety of learning systems that support innovative digital approaches and universities and organizations around the world are investing in building their own e-learning platforms. Digital technologies are enabling wider access to education and new markets for student recruitment resulting in increased income prospects for global higher education institutions. Technology enables numerous data and information sources which give greater access to information and data. It also enables highly virtual environments which impact teaching and the classroom. The widespread use and application of digital technologies in the teaching and learning process provoke pedagogical inquiry and mediation. It is in this context that Technologies for Sustainable Global Higher Education focuses on analyzing the application of digital technologies in the teaching–learning process. The chapters in this edited collection seek to answer questions relevant to the context of higher education such as: What is the concept of digital technologies? How is digital technology used to mediate the learning process? What technologies are used to qualify education in higher education? This book provides answers to these questions by focusing on issues central to improving education through digital technologies digital learning and pedagogical practices in digital education. It also provides case studies of higher education institutions.

GBP 110.00
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A Guide to IT Contracting Checklists Tools and Techniques

A Guide to IT Contracting Checklists Tools and Techniques

Since A Guide to IT Contracting: Checklists Tools and Techniques first published several alarming trends have developed in the technology contracting industry. These trends include: The Dawn of the As-Is Technology Product The Ever-Changing Product Where in the World Is My Data? To meet these challenges the Second Edition helps business managers and lawyers explore alternate solutions from other vendors conduct simultaneous negotiations with other vendors and generally ensure prospective vendors understand they can lose the deal if they refuse to act reasonably. Distilling the most critical business and legal lessons learned through the author’s decades of legal experience drafting and negotiating IT-related agreements this single volume lets readers quickly access information on virtually every type of technology agreement. Structured to focus on a particular type of IT agreement each chapter includes a checklist of essential terms a brief summary of what the agreement is intended to do and a complete review of the legal and business issues that are addressed in that particular agreement. Providing nonlegal professionals with the tools to address IT contracting issues the book: Contains checklists to help readers organize key concepts for ready reference Supplies references to helpful online resources and aids for contract drafting Includes a complete glossary that defines key legal business and technical terms Technology contracting is becoming ever more difficult. This book is filled with recommendations to mitigate potential risk and makes clear the importance of maintaining negotiating leverage with potential vendors. | A Guide to IT Contracting Checklists Tools and Techniques

GBP 44.99
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A Software Development Approach for Driving Competitiveness in Small Firms

A Software Development Approach for Driving Competitiveness in Small Firms

The COVID-19 Pandemic has forced many businesses to accelerate their digital transformation strategies to continue to meet the changing needs of their customers. This has resulted in significant growth in the global software market. However for decades managing software product quality has been a major challenge for many software development firms. This low success rate is due mainly to the development and delivery of low-quality software products. In addition to the direct costs associated with poor-quality software software flaws can also raisesecurity concerns as hackers can gain complete control of various devices and data such as mobile phones computers or the operational transactions of businesses. These security and privacy breaches are currently occurring with great frequency. Although producers and consumers of software products spend vast amounts of money developing and purchasing these products in many cases the promised benefits of user satisfaction efficiency productivity and profitability are not realized. In more severe circumstances software development firms have failed and face the threat of going bankrupt being acquired or suffering closure because customers are demanding high-quality software products that they consistently fail to deliver. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating within the software development industry have a more critical need to produce high-quality software since they are less able to absorb both the cost and the reputational impact of producing low-quality output. A Software Development Approach for Driving Competitiveness in Small Firms provides some cost-efficient options that can help SMEs increase the likelihood that their software will be of high quality. It tells the story of the entrepreneurial journey that small firms should take to deliver high-quality software products. By utilizing practical examples and providing several recommended solutions to decrease the likelihood of producing low-quality software the book outlines how mobilizing people processes and technology are integral to the software development process and emphasizes why process maturity is the most influential factor in software development in small and medium enterprises.

GBP 89.99
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The Sensible Guide to Program Management Professional (PgMP) Success

The Sensible Guide to Program Management Professional (PgMP) Success

A Sensible Guide to Program Management Professional (PgMP)® Success is for program managers preparing to take the PgMP exam based on The Standard for Program Management – 4th Edition (PgM4 Standard). It is designed for busy professionals whose responsibilities have taken them into the realm of coordinating facilitating managing and leading programs. Program managers are leaders who are directly managing large amounts of project resources for their organizations. This study guide addresses three main concerns facing PgMP exam candidates: What are the essential concepts processes and tools that form the foundation of today’s program management? Since program management is still an emerging profession with professionals often working in different ways what does this mean for a standard exam? More specifically how does that impact your ability to pass the PgMP exam? What is the best way to prepare for the PgMP exam? To address the first concern this book highlights the underlying rationale for program management: why it exists in organizations; why it is becoming ever more important; what programs are especially for the purpose of passing the exam; how to think like a portfolio manager; and what the most important concepts processes and tools are for this profession. By simplifying complex ideas and communicating them in plain English with relevant examples this book aims to help readers not only to pass the PgMP exam but also to serve as an essential guide for program managers. For the second concern this book differs from other study guides by describing the author’s personal experience as a program manager and addressing the most pressing questions for each of the performance domains in The Standard for Program Management. To address the last concern this book contains 420 practice questions access to an online exam simulator and an online PgMP community and a time-tested approach for passing the PgMP exam. | The Sensible Guide to Program Management Professional (PgMP)® Success

GBP 52.99
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Securing the Cloud Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center

Software Methodologies A Quantitative Guide

How to Start Your Own Cybersecurity Consulting Business First-Hand Lessons from a Burned-Out Ex-CISO

How to Start Your Own Cybersecurity Consulting Business First-Hand Lessons from a Burned-Out Ex-CISO

The burnout rate of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is pegged at about 16 months. In other words that is what the average tenure of a CISO is at a business. At the end of their stay many CISOs look for totally different avenues of work or they try something else – namely starting their own Cybersecurity Consulting business. Although a CISO might have the skill and knowledge set to go it alone it takes careful planning to launch a successful Cyber Consulting business. This ranges all the way from developing a business plan to choosing the specific area in Cybersecurity that they want to serve. How to Start Your Own Cybersecurity Consulting Business: First-Hand Lessons from a Burned-Out Ex-CISO is written by an author who has real-world experience in launching a Cyber Consulting company. It is all-encompassing with coverage spanning from selecting which legal formation is most suitable to which segment of the Cybersecurity industry should be targeted. The book is geared specifically towards the CISO that is on the verge of a total burnout or career change. It explains how CISOs can market their experience and services to win and retain key customers. It includes a chapter on how certification can give a Cybersecurity consultant a competitive edge and covers the five top certifications in information security: CISSP CompTIA Security+ CompTIA CySA+ CSSP and CISM. The book’s author has been in the IT world for more than 20 years and has worked for numerous companies in corporate America. He has experienced CISO burnout. He has also started two successful Cybersecurity companies. This book offers his own unique perspective based on his hard-earned lessons learned and shows how to apply them in creating a successful venture. It also covers the pitfalls of starting a consultancy how to avoid them and how to bounce back from any that prove unavoidable. This is the book for burned-out former CISOs to rejuvenate themselves and their careers by launching their own consultancies. | How to Start Your Own Cybersecurity Consulting Business First-Hand Lessons from a Burned-Out Ex-CISO

GBP 44.99
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Software Configuration Management

Fraud Auditing Using CAATT A Manual for Auditors and Forensic Accountants to Detect Organizational Fraud

Building a Project Work Breakdown Structure Visualizing Objectives Deliverables Activities and Schedules

Building a Project Work Breakdown Structure Visualizing Objectives Deliverables Activities and Schedules

Most people do not truly understand a concept until they can visualize it. This applies to all fields including Project Management. The best way to effectively manage projects is to help your team visualize the end result as well as the steps needed to achieve that result. Help Your Team Visualize the Right Path to Success Building a Project Work Breakdown Structure: Visualizing Objectives Deliverables Activities and Schedules employs a diagram approach to project planning and scheduling. This useful tool empowers business professionals to take control of and successfully communicate their projects ensuring they are completed on time with their targeted impact. Industry professional Dennis P. Miller a consultant to leading Fortune 500 companies thoroughly explains the keys to an effective Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) through an Eight Step Process. He has refined this process over a period of twenty years applying it to over 100 projects ranging from software development to social events. The Eight Step Process starts with a concentrated effort to define the project through its deliverables. The middle steps walk the project team through a process of activity definition and sequencing and resource assignment. Finally the last steps involve estimating the duration and verifying the project timeline. Not Just What to Do But How to Do It! This is a hands-on volume that includes a practice section for each of the eight steps providing readers with real examples of how the author has successfully applied this process. The result of its application is a visualization of the project‘s objectives deliverables activities and schedules. Over 130 illustrations enrich the instructions. Project managers are assured of success by following the simple tools in this unique and comprehensive volume. | Building a Project Work Breakdown Structure Visualizing Objectives Deliverables Activities and Schedules

GBP 170.00
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UML Diagramming A Case Study Approach

UML Diagramming A Case Study Approach

The Unified Modeling Language better known as UML has become the de facto standard modeling language for analyzing and designing software applications and systems. Software analysis and design is just as much an art as it is a science. UML Diagramming: A Catalog of Cases shows the art and the science behind successful software analysis and design with more than 35 case studies of applications of a variety of industries including: Transportation Healthcare Supply chain management Education Agriculture Manufacturing The book explains UML diagramming through case studies to help systems and software developers specify visualize construct and document the artifacts of software systems. The cases demonstrate how UML embodies software engineering best practices for modeling large and complex systems. They show how UML is an intuitive diagramming language that can be easily understood by end-users and business professionals. These cases studies also demonstrate how UML is a powerful language for communicating software designs to help developers and end users validate application scope requirements and features. Case studies highlighted in the book included: WEBMED healthcare service system services Inventory management system Business process outsourcing (BPO) management system Weather monitoring system Product recommendation system Textile management system Smart traffic management system Online pharmacy management system Placement automation system Farm management system Art gallery management system Website development This catalog of UML case studies is an invaluable reference for students studying software engineering programmers starting out their careers and seasoned systems developers needing a reference guide. | UML Diagramming A Case Study Approach

GBP 48.99
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How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less

How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less

Successful security professionals have had to modify the process of responding to new threats in the high-profile ultra-connected business environment. But just because a threat exists does not mean that your organization is at risk. This is what risk assessment is all about. How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less demonstrates how to identify threats your company faces and then determine if those threats pose a real risk to the organization. To help you determine the best way to mitigate risk levels in any given situation How to Complete a Risk Assessment in 5 Days or Less includes more than 350 pages of user-friendly checklists forms questionnaires and sample assessments. Presents Case Studies and Examples of all Risk Management ComponentsBased on the seminars of information security expert Tom Peltier this volume provides the processes that you can easily employ in your organization to assess risk. Answers such FAQs as:Why should a risk analysis be conducted?Who should review the results?How is the success measured?Always conscious of the bottom line Peltier discusses the cost-benefit of risk mitigation and looks at specific ways to manage costs. He supports his conclusions with numerous case studies and diagrams that show you how to apply risk management skills in your organization—and it’s not limited to information security risk assessment. You can apply these techniques to any area of your business. This step-by-step guide to conducting risk assessments gives you the knowledgebase and the skill set you need to achieve a speedy and highly-effective risk analysis assessment in a matter of days.

GBP 56.99
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Leading Megaprojects A Tailored Approach

Leading Megaprojects A Tailored Approach

The performance of megaprojects is questionable and a large percentage of them fail in one dimension or another. The challenges that contribute to these failures are known. Then why do these projects still fail at a high rate? Leading Megaprojects: A Tailored Approach examines the challenges facing megaprojects and more importantly successes in delivering megaprojects. To close the performance gaps in megaproject deliveries the book presents a customizable model that professionals and organizations can use to increase the chance of successful project delivery. To illustrate the model it uses examples and case studies primarily from capital projects with engineering and construction components. The book also explains how the approach can be applied to all projects regardless of industry or domain. The book emphasizes the role of leadership because it takes the point of view that megaprojects cannot be successful without great leadership due to their massive size complexity number of parties and stakeholders involved and cost among other vital factors. Leaders can define the path for a megaproject to guide seasoned managers and project managers to successful closure. The tailored approach is based on a stage-gate project life cycle model which covers projects from concept to success. However it is not limited to a purist form of traditional project management. It is a tailored methodological approach with an emphasis on leading the work end-to-end at the project level along with the management of every stage of the project. Also it presents the integration of the business product delivery and operations management into a cohesive approach. The book concludes with an in-depth simulation showing how the model is can be tailored to deliver a megaproject successfully. | Leading Megaprojects A Tailored Approach

GBP 44.99
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Database Systems A Pragmatic Approach 3rd edition

Database Systems A Pragmatic Approach 3rd edition

This book provides a concise but comprehensive guide to the disciplines of database design construction implementation and management. Based on the authors’ professional experience in the software engineering and IT industries before making a career switch to academia the text stresses sound database design as a necessary precursor to successful development and administration of database systems. The discipline of database systems design and management is discussed within the context of the bigger picture of software engineering. Students are led to understand from the outset of the text that a database is a critical component of a software infrastructure and that proper database design and management is integral to the success of a software system. Additionally students are led to appreciate the huge value of a properly designed database to the success of a business enterprise. The text was written for three target audiences. It is suited for undergraduate students of computer science and related disciplines who are pursuing a course in database systems graduate students who are pursuing an introductory course to database and practicing software engineers and information technology (IT) professionals who need a quick reference on database design. Database Systems: A Pragmatic Approach 3rd Edition discusses concepts principles design implementation and management issues related to database systems. Each chapter is organized into brief reader-friendly conversational sections with itemization of salient points to be remembered. This pragmatic approach includes adequate treatment of database theory and practice based on strategies that have been tested proven and refined over several years. Features of the third edition include: Short paragraphs that express the salient aspects of each subject Bullet points itemizing important points for easy memorization Fully revised and updated diagrams and figures to illustrate concepts to enhance the student’s understanding Real-world examples Original methodologies applicable to database design Step-by-step student-friendly guidelines for solving generic database systems problems Opening chapter overviews and concluding chapter summaries Discussion of DBMS alternatives such as the Entity–Attributes–Value model NoSQL databases database-supporting frameworks and other burgeoning database technologies A chapter with sample assignment questions and case studies This textbook may be used as a one-semester or two-semester course in database systems augmented by a DBMS (preferably Oracle). After its usage students will come away with a firm grasp of the design development implementation and management of a database system. | Database Systems A Pragmatic Approach 3rd edition

GBP 59.99
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A Practical Introduction to Enterprise Network and Security Management

A Practical Introduction to Enterprise Network and Security Management

A Practical Introduction to Enterprise Network and Security Management Second Edition provides a balanced understanding of introductory and advanced subjects in both computer networking and cybersecurity. Although much of the focus is on technical concepts managerial issues related to enterprise network and security planning and design are explained from a practitioner’s perspective. Because of the critical importance of cybersecurity in today’s enterprise networks security-related issues are explained throughout the book and four chapters are dedicated to fundamental knowledge. Challenging concepts are explained so readers can follow through with careful reading. This book is written for those who are self-studying or studying information systems or computer science in a classroom setting. If used for a course it has enough material for a semester or a quarter. FEATURES Provides both theoretical and practical hands-on knowledge and learning experiences for computer networking and cybersecurity Offers a solid knowledge base for those preparing for certificate tests such as CompTIA and CISSP Takes advantage of actual cases examples industry products and services so students can relate concepts and theories to practice Explains subjects in a systematic and practical manner to facilitate understanding Includes practical exercise questions that can be individual or group assignments within or without a classroom Contains several information-rich screenshots figures and tables carefully constructed to solidify concepts and enhance visual learning The text is designed for students studying information systems or computer science for the first time. As a textbook this book includes hands-on assignments based on the Packet Tracer program an excellent network design and simulation tool from Cisco. Instructor materials also are provided including PowerPoint slides solutions for exercise questions and additional chapter questions from which to build tests.

GBP 44.99
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The Complete Guide for CISA Examination Preparation

The Complete Guide for CISA Examination Preparation

The Complete Guide for CISA Examination Preparation delivers complete coverage of every topic on the latest release of the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam. The author is an IT security and auditing expert and the book covers all five exam domains. This effective self-study system features chapter learning objectives in-depth explanations of each topic and accurate practice questions. Each chapter includes exam tips that highlight key exam information hands-on exercises a summary that serves as a quick review and end-of-chapter questions that simulate those on the actual exam. Designed to help candidates pass the CISA exam easily it also serves as an ideal on-the-job reference. Richard E. Cascarino MBA CIA CISM CFE CRMA is well known in international auditing. Richard is a principal of Richard Cascarino & Associates. He has over 31 years’ experience in audit training and consulting. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and has presented courses throughout Africa Europe the Middle East and the USA. Richard is a Past President of the Institute of Internal Auditors in South Africa was the founding Regional Director of the Southern African Region of the IIA-Inc. and is a member of ISACA and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners where he is a member of the Board of Regents for Higher Education. Richard was Chairman of the Audit Committee of Gauteng cluster 2 (Premier's office Shared Services and Health) in Johannesburg and is currently the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Department of Public Enterprises in South Africa. Richard is also a visiting Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand author of the book Internal Auditing: An Integrated Approach now in its third edition. This book is extensively used as a university textbook worldwide. In addition he is the author of the Auditor's Guide to IT Auditing Second Edition and the book Corporate Fraud and Internal Control: A Framework for Prevention. He is also a contributor to all four editions of QFINANCE the Ultimate Resource.

GBP 36.99
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Effective Methods for Software Engineering

Effective Methods for Software Engineering

Software is important because it is used by a great many people in companies and institutions. This book presents engineering methods for designing and building software. Based on the author’s experience in software engineering as a programmer in the defense and aerospace industries this book explains how to ensure a software that is programmed operates according to its requirements. It also shows how to develop operate and maintain software engineering capabilities by instilling an engineering discipline to support programming design builds and delivery to customers. This book helps software engineers to:Understand the basic concepts standards and requirements of software engineering. Select the appropriate programming and design techniques. Effectively use software engineering tools and applications. Create specifications to comply with the software standards and requirements. Utilize various methods and techniques to identify defects. Manage changes to standards and requirements. Besides providing a technical view this book discusses the moral and ethical responsibility of software engineers to ensure that the software they design and program does not cause serious problems. Software engineers tend to be concerned with the technical elegance of their software products and tools whereas customers tend to be concerned only with whether a software product meets their needs and is easy and ready to use. This book looks at these two sides of software development and the challenges they present for software engineering. A critical understanding of software engineering empowers developers to choose the right methods for achieving effective results. Effective Methods for Software Engineering guides software programmers and developers to develop this critical understanding that is so crucial in today’s software-dependent society.

GBP 42.99
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Project Management Lessons Learned A Continuous Process Improvement Framework