Papa John’s Offering a Free Pizza

Papa John’s is offering consumers a free pizza. By simply placing an order for $15 or more between today and April 7 using promo code STATS at www.papajohns.com, you can get a free pizza on your next order.

While we don't offer free books, you might want to check out these anyway:

How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy and Other Stories of Intelligence and Code by David Kahn; ISBN 978-1-4665-6199-1

Trade Secret Theft, Industrial Espionage, and the China Threat by Carl Roper; ISBN 9781439899380

Managing Risk and Security in Outsourcing IT Services: Onshore, Offshore and the Cloud by Frank Siepmann; ISBN 9781439879092

Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks by Nabendu Chaki and Rituparna Chaki; ISBN 978-1-4665-1565-9

The State of the Art in Intrusion Prevention and Detection by Al-Sakib Khan Pathan; ISBN 978-1-4822-0351-6

Core Software Security: Security at the Source by James Ransome and Anmol Misra; ISBN 9781466560956 

CRC Press Books on IEEE Best Readings in Communications and Information Systems Security List

The IEEE recently added the following book to its Best Readings in Communications and Information Systems Security List.

Alessandro Acquisti, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costos Lambrinoudakis, and Sabrina di Vimercati  (eds.), Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies and Practices 

Peter Stavroulakis (ed.), Chaos Applications in Telecommunications

Mohssen Mohammed  and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Automatic Defense against Zero-day Polymorphic Worms in Communication Networks  

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan (ed.), Security of Self-Organizing Networks: MANET, WSN, WMN, VANET

 

Is there anything really new happening?

I just received a flyer for another information security conference. Is there anything really new happening? I'm seeing sessions on the same old stuff, mostly at a introductory level. Sure, there are new threats and vulnerabilities popping up every day, but how different are they really? Even cloud, mobile, and big data are getting old, and we'll never solve the user problem. I mean, who doesn't know about this 

I've been trying for a long time to get someone to write books on DLP, SEIM, APT, GRC, ..., but am beginning to believe that these topics have jumped the shark. Aside from, maybe, identity and access management, what's going to drive people's need for information and, one can hope, books sales?

BTW, if anyone wants to accept the challenge of writing a book identity and access management, let me know. It's a sure way to immortality (or at least as long as the Library of Congress exists).

The Time Machine Investigates the First-sale Doctrine

The Time Machine Investigates the First-sale Doctrine

Talk about being on the horns of a dilemma. As a publisher, I know there are far too many pirated versions of what I publish freely available to anyone who wants to spend a few seconds searching. Do I want to make it even easier to share? On the other hand, as a consumer I want to own, and lend, what I buy. The music industry seems to have resigned itself to this. If I buy music online, I download it and for all intents and purposes own it. I can burn it to a CD, or it send as an email attachment. Movies, too, are like music. Should I buy a DVD, I can lend it like a book, although I'm more likely to rent a movie online than buy and download it.

EBooks, as we know, aren't nearly as consumer friendly. Amazon keeps everyone imprisoned its inaptly named 'walled garden.' And while there's limited sharing within the Amazon and B&N universes, it's not true sharing. And I really don't understand the limitations on library lending. It seems the controls are similar to those for print books; a library can only lend as many copies as it has rights. Once the ebook limit is reached, I go on a waiting list, just as for print books.

Book Review Went Viral, but Do Books Matter?

This is about Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It. Jesse Varsalone and Matthew McFadden wrote it, we published it, Ben Rothke reviewed it, and the review went viral. I love it when that happens, but it doesn't happen too often.

Speaking of which, is anyone reading this still reading books? Buying books? Downloading pirated copies of books? Do books play any role in your working life?