Practical Security

2025 3rd Edition Master Cybersecurity, Protect Your Data, and Advance Your Career—Now with AI-Powered Support 📈 Do traditional cybersecurity books overwhelm you with dry theory and complex jargon? Looking for a clear, streamlined guide that helps you build real-world skills—fast? Prefer learning through practical strategies, hands-on labs, and expert-driven tools? Now, with the powerful addition of AI Mentor Pro, you'll have a 24/7 digital mentor by your side to explain concepts, answer questions, and coach you through every challenge on your path to success. Why Choose This Guide? ...

In an increasingly dangerous world, The Practical Guide to Personal Security equips everyday people with the mindset, tools, and real-world strategies used by elite professionals—proven strategies adapted for civilian life. From home defense to threat detection, self-defense to emergency response—whether you're walking across a college campus, coming home to an empty house, or managing a crisis, this book helps YOU take control of your safety.

With rapidly changing architecture and API-driven automation, cloud platforms come with unique security challenges and opportunities. In this updated second edition, you'll examine security best practices for multivendor cloud environments, whether your company plans to move legacy on-premises projects to the cloud or build a new infrastructure from the ground up.

Learn Bitcoin trading, mining, and crypto security from one practical guide. Bitcoin is more than a digital coin. It is a market, a technology, a mining network, and a financial system that requires knowledge, discipline, and strong security habits. Bitcoin Trading, Mining & Security is written for beginners and everyday crypto users who want a clear, practical introduction to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency markets, blockchain mining, wallet protection, and risk management. This book helps you understand how the crypto world works without confusing jargon or unrealistic promises. Whether you are ...

A great deal of time and money is spent on protecting critical digital assets. Many organizations focus their security testing on compliance or limited scope reviews of a system. These limited tests often leave an organization with a false sense of security. Organizations that open themselves to an assessment of not only their technology but of their people and processes can significantly improve their security posture and adjust its limited security budget and resources to protect the most critical assets. Scenario-based testing and Red Team techniques can be used to determine how an ...

'The ideal combination of thoughtful and actionable' – James Clear, bestselling author of Atomic Habits 'A must read' – Morgan Housel, bestselling author of The Psychology of Money Everyone faces big questions when it comes to money: questions about saving, investing, and whether you're...

Your organization is already a target. The question is not whether attackers will look for a weakness, but whether you will be ready when they find one. AI-Powered Cybersecurity is a practical guide for business owners, executives, IT managers, public-sector leaders, and organizations that need stronger protection without building a large cybersecurity department. It explains modern attacks in plain language and turns cybersecurity into a sequence of realistic actions. Inside, you will learn how to: • Understand how hackers actually enter organizations • Reduce exposure through a one-...

ISO 27001: Compliance in Action Transforming Policies into Practical, Lasting Security Solutions In today's world, where data breaches and cyber threats are on the rise, ISO 27001: Compliance in Action is your ultimate hands-on guide to implementing, monitoring, and sustaining an effective Information Security Management System (ISMS). This book bridges the gap between policy creation and practical application, providing step-by-step strategies to help organizations build lasting security solutions. What You'll Learn: ✔️ Comprehensive Implementation: Turn ISO 27001 requirements into ...

Practical OPSEC Operational Security for Journalists, Hackers, Activists, and Investigators In a world of mass surveillance, data breaches, spyware, and digital tracking, operational security is no longer just a military concept. It is a survival skill. Journalists protecting confidential sources. Hackers maintaining anonymity. Activists organizing under surveillance. Investigators exposing corruption. All face the same fundamental challenge: how to operate securely when powerful adversaries are watching. This book provides a practical guide to operational security (OPSEC) in the real world...

It’s easy to find descriptions of what threat intelligence is. But it’s harder to learn how to use it to truly make your organization safe from cybercriminals. How can threat intelligence strengthen all the teams in a cybersecurity organization? This audiobook answers this question. It reviews the kinds of threat intelligence that are useful to security teams and how each team can use that intelligence to solve problems and address challenges.

Have you ever wondered what would happen to your family if the economic system suddenly stopped working the way it used to? Would you really know what to do if, overnight, everything came to a halt? Dollar Collapse Survival Manual is your practical guide to understanding, anticipating, and protecting your savings—no matter what tomorrow brings. Written in clear, accessible language and filled with actionable tools, this book walks you through a three-phase path to financial security and mental calm, even in the most turbulent times. Inside, you’ll discover: Clarity – Learn how to read...

In today's digital age, data is the new currency. Businesses are collecting more information than ever before, and individuals are increasingly concerned about how their personal details are used and protected. This is where the IAPP CIPP/US (Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States) certification steps in, acting as your passport to a thriving career in the ever-evolving field of data privacy.

“Create Your Own AI” is a comprehensive, hands-on guide for anyone who wants to build a fully private generative AI system—at home or within a small or medium-sized organization. Instead of relying on cloud platforms, this book shows you how to deploy powerful open-source models locally, control your own data, and create intelligent tools tailored to your real needs. Across its chapters, you will discover how today’s generative models truly work, how the technology evolved into modern LLMs, and how to install, configure, and operate them using secure, free, and open-source software....

DESCRIPTION Everyone is telling you AI will change your life. Almost nobody is telling you what it could cost you. You use it to write emails, plan trips, check symptoms, help the kids with homework. It feels like magic. It also feels like something you do not fully understand, and that quiet unease in the back of your mind is not paranoia. It is common sense. AI ~ What Could POSSIBLY Go Wrong? is the plain-English guide for people who are not engineers, not doomsayers, and not interested in hype from either side. No jargon. No math. No lectures. Just a clear, honest look at what these ...

Stop Memorizing Passwords. Start Logging in Safely. Does the "Forgot Password" button feel like your most visited website? We’ve all been there. The sticky notes on the monitor, the frantic search for that one capital letter you changed six months ago, and the constant fear that one wrong click in an email could lose you everything. The tech giants have a solution: Passkeys. But figuring out how to use them across your iPhone, Windows laptop, and Android tablet can feel overwhelming. Until now. No More Passwords: Passkeys Made Easy is the jargon-free, tool-agnostic guide that takes you ...

Python is a crucial skill in today's highly technological world that may offer you a big advantage in a variety of fields, including artificial intelligence (AI), web design, and app development. If intricate terminology and perplexing courses have turned you off, though, how can you further your programming career? This extensive booklet demystifies programming with practical lectures and detailed directions. Even if you don't consider yourself a computer expert, you'll acquire the seasoned knowledge and abilities required to understand, create, and build top-notch code! This book offers a...

The book Mastering AI Infrastructure and Cyber Security delves into the crucial aspects of safeguarding artificial intelligence (AI) systems and implementing robust infrastructure for AI applications. The book covers various topics, including AI algorithms, data privacy, cyber security threats, and defensive strategies.

The main goal of campus security is to keep a safe and organized environment that promotes learning and growth. This involves protecting physical assets while building trust and positive relationships with the diverse community you serve.

Agentic Programming with AI Agents: A Practical Software Engineering Guide to Tool-Calling Agents, Planning Systems, Memory, Evaluation, Security, and Production Deployment AI agents are no longer experimental demos. Developers, engineers, and technical teams now need agents that can call tools, follow plans, manage context, remember useful information, evaluate outputs, handle failures, and run safely in production. But building reliable AI agents is not as simple as connecting an LLM to an API. Are your prototypes impressive but fragile? Do your agents break when workflows get longer, ...

ISO 27001: Internal Audits & Data Protection: Strengthening Compliance & Security A Practical Guide to Conducting Internal Audits and Safeguarding Sensitive Data In the digital age, organizations must ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their sensitive information. This practical guide helps businesses understand the key concepts of ISO 27001, focusing on conducting internal audits and implementing data protection strategies to strengthen compliance and security. The book provides a step-by-step approach for performing thorough internal audits in alignment with ISO ...