The first edition of this book, Energy Law and the Environment, was published in 2002 and was the first one in the field that considered the legal environmental imperatives for the energy sector. The first edition was written to be accessible to both lawyers and non-lawyers alike and the same theme continues in this, the second edition. However, the interest and concerns of policymakers, multin…
This book explores fundamental questions about grand strategy, as it has evolved across generations and countries. It provides an overview of the ancient era of grand strategy and a detailed discussion of its philosophical, military, and economic foundations in the modern era. This study investigates these aspects through the lens of four approaches – those of historians, social scientists,…
Welcome to PhoneGap social app development. Social networking has changed the way we share information in our world. Where it used to be an e-mail to a friend (or even a letter!), now it's a tweet or a Facebook post, often for the world to see. What's even more amazing is how relatively young the various social networks are and how quickly they have changed the way we communicate and consume in…
Are you new to Software Defined Networking (SDN)? Have you been hung up in the SDN crazy for the past several years? Whichever bucket you fall into, do not worry. Even though this book is centered around network automation and programmability, this chapter is going to highlight and provide an introduction on several of the major trends throughout the network industry that often end up in conver…
The Windows 8 operating system is the newest member of the Microsoft Windows family. It differs from earlier Windows releases as much for what it does not change as for what it does change. That is, the features that IT pros loved about Windows 7 are still there in Windows 8—just better. The same keyboard shortcuts, management tools, security features, and deployment options are available in …
Next generation supercomputers require drastically better energy efficiency to allow these systems to scale to exaflop computing levels.Virtually all major processor ven- dors and companies such asAMD, Intel, and IBM are developing high-performance and highly energy-efficient multicore processors and dedicating their current and future development and manufacturing to multicore products. It …
Since the first edition of Hacking Exposed Wireless, the technologies and the threats facing these communications have grown in number and sophistication. Combined with the rapidly increasing number of deployments the risk of implementing wireless technologies has been compounded. Nevertheless, the risk is often surpassed by the benefits and convenience of wireless technologies, which have been…
Security is arguably one of the most critical architectural components of any web-based application written in the 21st century. In an era where malware, criminals, and rogue employees are always present and actively testing software for exploits, smart and comprehensive use of security is a key element to any project for which you'll be responsible. This book is written to follow a pattern o…
This chapter introduces the principles of network security monitoring (NSM), which is the collection, analysis, and escalation of indications and warnings to detect and respond to intrusions. NSM is a way to find intruders on your network and do something about them before they damage your enterprise.
Many of us test web applications on either a daily or regular basis. We may be following a script of interactions (“click here, type XYZ, click Submit, check for OK message…”) or we might be writing frameworks that invoke batteries of automated tests against our web applications. Most of us are somewhere in between. Regardless of how we test, we need to get security testing into what we…
For many years Microsoft has maintained two sets of operating systems that both used the Windows name. From Windows 95 and 98 to Windows Me, an inexpensive operating system that could be used for both home and business applications was produced. For the server and workstation market, Microsoft produced Windows NT and Windows 2000. But maintaining two different operating system kernels for these…
Wireshark is perhaps the world's most popular network packet analyzer used to troubleshoot and analyze network and application protocols across wide variety of technologies. Wireshark is free, open source, and available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and several Unix-like platforms, and it is continuously being improved and expanded by its original developer, Gerald Combs, and over 500 code cont…
The first edition of this book appeared eight years ago. Since then the banking industry experienced a lot of change and challenges. The most recent financial crisis which started around May 2007 and lasted in its core period until early 2009 gave rise to a lot of scepticism about whether credit risk models are appropriate to capture the true nature of risks inherent in credit portfolios in gen…
Zabbix was born as a distributed network monitoring tool with a central web interface where you can manage almost everything. Nowadays, with Zabbix 2.4, the number of possible architectures has been reduced to a single server setup and a Zabbix-proxies distributed setup.