AWS is not easy; it combines skills of several different (established) crafts. It is different from traditional systems administration, and it’s not just developing a piece of software. If you have practiced one or both of these skills, all you need is to be inquisitive and open to learning. Our background is in software engineering. We are computer scientists with extensive software engineer…
Thanks for purchasing the second edition of this book. It’s been almost five years since the first edition was published, and that meant that a lot has changed in the world of web security. Our goal for this edition of the book was simple: reorganize the book from a web developer’s perspective, update important new information as it applies to PHP security, and leave out any information tha…
We begin to jump into the PHP code within this chapter. You will learn about PHP best coding practices when it comes to performance. You will learn about constructing a faster-running for loop, how to include files using the optimal PHP function, and, most importantly, how to use and install VLD, strace, and Xdebug. Once VLD and strace are installed, you will analyze Opcode, as well as the Apac…
This PhoneGap 4 cookbook is a practical guide to developing hybrid applications using PhoneGap or Cordova. The sample applications here are based on real-world use cases and are shown step by step. This book covers the standard workflow using the Cordova command-line interface, and the extension of hybrid applications using various Cordova plugins. It also covers the development of hybrid appl…
Mobile devices are virtually ubiquitous among the enterprise workforce, and employees are becoming increasingly mobile. This book discusses how the enterprise workforce can take advantage of Apache Cordova/Adobe PhoneGap applications to create cross-platform hybrid mobile applications that can serve the varied needs of the user and the enterprise. This book will cover the various aspects of typ…
It’s ten o’clock on Monday morning. The boss of the branch office is in a rage. He’s been waiting for hours for an important e-mail, and it still hasn’t arrived. It can only be the fault of the mail server; it’s probably hung yet again. But a quick check of the computer shows that no mails have got stuck in the queue there,and there’snomentioneitherinthelogfilethatamailfromthesend…
Welcome to the Instant Munin Plugin Starter. This book provides you with all the information that you need to set up a Munin cluster and expand it. We will also teach you how to write your own Munin plugins. This book contains the following sections: So, what is Munin? explains what Munin actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great. Installation tells you how to install Munin…
In the early days of the web, Internet was mostly used for academic purposes. Hence, all communications protocols had very little or no focus on security. The situation started changing as more and more public and commercial services started moving online and common users started actually using Internet in their daily routine. With the increase of user base we see the emerge of the malicious gr…
When Olaf Kirche joined the LDP in 1992, he wrote two small chapters on UUCP and smail, which he meant to contribute to the System Administrator’s Guide. Development of TCP/IP networking was just beginning, and when those “small chapters” started to grow, he wondered aloud whether it would be nice to have a Networking Guide. “Great!” everyone said. “Go for it!” So he went for it a…
Nowadays, iOS is becoming more and more prevalent in companies and larger organizations. Whether this is a trend that is driven by Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or something that is coming from within the IT department, our knowledge of platforms is being stretched more and more all the time. It’s getting harder and harder to be an expert on every platform that is in use in our organizations! …
To be able to define IoT, let's first look at how the term was coined. Kevin Ashton noted that most data on the Internet was at the time originally entered or captured into the system by human beings. From a system point of view, a human is nothing more than a slow, error-prone, and inefficient router of data that puts limits on quality and quantity of data available and sometimes even dares to…
Microsoft's Azure platform is an exciting offering in the cloud services market space. Designed to compete with Google AppEngine and Amazon Web Services, Azure stresses a familiar development environment (primarily .NET, SQL Server, and Visual Studio) with a rich set of capabilities. In addition to using Windows Azure to host web applications and services, SQL Azure provides a relational datab…
This first chapter covers the basics of setting up and configuring a virtual security lab, which can be used to practice most of the scenarios and exercises addressed throughout this book. Topics addressed in this chapter include the installation of the virtualization software, the installation of various systems in the virtual environment, and the configuration of some of the tools that will b…
Firewalls are a staple of almost every network in the world. The firewall protects nearly every network-based transaction that occurs, and even the end user understands its metaphoric name, meant to imply keeping out the bad stuff. But firewalls have had to change. Whether it’s the growth of networks or the growth of network usage, they have had to move beyond the simple devices that only req…
Classified as a server-based computing solution, Citrix® XenApp® offers companies a solution for Windows applications to be virtualized, centralized, and managed in the datacenter and delivered to end users from a single application portal (or store) at any time, any place, and any device. Making use of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services, Citrix® XenApp® hosts multiple user sessions on a s…
After you’ve spent some time in the networking field, you tend to notice that there is rarely a single way to do things, and in many cases, rarely a single, precise definition for terms. After all, often a network engineer’s best answer is “it depends.” Such is the case with enterprise routing, so let’s start off with a definition question: what is an enterprise network? Is it a large…
This book describes the jobs that I and other networking engineers have performed on client networks over the past few years. We are considered network warriors because of the way that we attack networking challenges and solve issues for our clients. Network warriors come from different backgrounds, including service provider routing, security, and the enterprise. They are experts on many diffe…
Behavioral activation theory indicates that much clinically relevant human behavior is a function of positive reinforcement, and that when positive reinforcement is reduced, lost, or chronically low depression results. Behavioral activation encourages clients to obtain and nurture the skills that allow them to establish and maintain contact with diverse, stable sources of positive reinforcement…
In the last 10 years, network programming has stopped being the province of a few specialists and become a core part of every developer’s toolbox. Today, more pro- grams are network aware than aren’t. Besides classic applications like email, web browsers, and Telnet clients, most major applications have some level of networking built in. For example: • Text editors like BBEdit save and o…