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Since 2001, the CERT® Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has collected and analyzed information about more than seven hundred insider cyber crimes, ranging from national security espionage to theft of trade secrets. The CERT® Guide to Insider Threats describes CERT’s findings in practical terms, offering specific guidance and countermeasures that can be immediately applied by executives, managers, security officers, and operational staff within any private, government, or military organization.

The authors systematically address attacks by all types of malicious insiders, including current and former employees, contractors, business partners, outsourcers, and even cloud-computing vendors. They cover all major types of insider cyber crime: IT sabotage, intellectual property theft, and fraud. For each, they present a crime profile describing how the crime tends to evolve over time, as well as motivations, attack methods, organizational issues, and precursor warnings that could have helped the organization prevent the incident or detect it earlier. Beyond identifying crucial patterns of suspicious behavior, the authors present concrete defensive measures for protecting both systems and data.

This book also conveys the big picture of the insider threat problem over time: the complex interactions and unintended consequences of existing policies, practices, technology, insider mindsets, and organizational culture. Most important, it offers actionable recommendations for the entire organization, from executive management and board members to IT, data owners, HR, and legal departments. Download Now »

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Microsoft’s Application Virtualization technology has been emerging as one of the main platforms in application virtualization. This is mainly because more and more organizations are thinking about application virtualization as a valid implementation; also because App-V represents probably the most attractive solution. App-V introduces a new and efficient way to improve operating systems and application life cycles in organizations. However, if we want to maximize our investment we must learn that every scenario and application differs from another, as does complexity.

With Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide administrators will find detailed topics for understanding App-V components, architecture and implementation models; as well as step-by-step guidance to master App-V processes. There is also guidance on integrating App-V with other robust platforms like VDI, SCCM 2012 and even virtualizing server applications.

Microsoft Application Virtualization Advanced Guide will start by giving readers the means to discover unfamiliar topics in App-V, as well as understanding App-V’s architecture. By doing so, it will provide the baseline needed before shifting to advanced topics in App-V, like complex scenarios for sequencing and deploying applications.

The book details scripting within App-V, as well as handling the platform using the command line; there is a complete review of troubleshooting installations, sequencing and deploying applications.

Integration is another key component we will cover by introducing App-V Download Now »

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If you’re considering a Mac OS X server for your small business, school, nonprofit, or home network, this easy-to-follow guide will help you get up and running in no time. You’ll learn how to share files, mail, and calendar information on your desktops, iPads, iPhones, and other devices, whether you’re new to Mac OS X servers or need to update your skills for the Lion edition.

Discover how to configure your network to include multiple operating systems—including Mac, iOS, and Windows—and set up servers for wikis, websites, and podcasts with relative ease.

• Plan your installation to make sure you have the right server hardware
• Control data access with permissions, and use Apple’s Time Machine to back up your network
• Share contacts, schedules, and instant messaging with groupware
• Manage wikis, blogs, and websites with Lion’s web service
• Build an email server and protect it against spam and malware
• Handle preferences for the network’s Apple computers and iOS devices
• Deploy new Apple computers to the network with disk imaging

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Planning
Chapter 2. Installation
Chapter 3. Sharing and Backing Up Files Download Now »

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With this digital Early Release edition of Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning, you get the entire book bundle in its earliest form – the author’s raw and unedited content – so you can take advantage of this content long before the book’s official release. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version.

Create your own natural language training corpus for machine learning. This example-driven book walks you through the annotation cycle, from selecting an annotation task and creating the annotation specification to designing the guidelines, creating a “gold standard” corpus, and then beginning the actual data creation with the annotation process.

Systems exist for analyzing existing corpora, but making a new corpus can be extremely complex. To help you build a foundation for your own machine learning goals, this easy-to-use guide includes case studies that demonstrate four different annotation tasks in detail. You’ll also learn how to use a lightweight software package for annotating texts and adjudicating the annotations.

This book is a perfect companion to O’Reilly’s Natural Language Processing with Python, which describes how to use existing corpora with the Natural Language Toolkit.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Basics
Chapter 2. Defining Your Goal and Dataset Download Now »

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SharePoint 2010 Site Owner’s Manual teaches you what SharePoint 2010 is all about and how to get started using it. The book also includes step-by-step instructions for implementing real-world scenarios. You will learn how to build powerful sites leveraging SharePoint’s out-of-the-box functionality along with other helpful tools such as InfoPath, Access, and SharePoint Designer.

This book is a guide for business users without programming skills who want to build their own SharePoint sites. With it, you’ll learn how to set up document sharing, trackable workflows, and many other business applications. You’ll go step-by-step through real-world scenarios like content management, business intelligence, sharing information on the web, and search. Along the way, you’ll learn how to interact with other business tools like Access, InfoPath, and SharePoint Designer.

This book is designed for SharePoint users who want to become tech-savvy in configuring SharePoint’s out-of-the-box functionality. No programming or system administration experience is required.

What’s Inside

• Go from user to power user
• Build on out-of-the-box features
• Customize your SharePoint site

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As Ruby pro David Copeland explains, writing a command-line application that is self-documenting, robust, adaptable and forever useful is easier than you might think. Ruby is particularly suited to this task, since it combines high-level abstractions with “close to the metal” system interaction wrapped up in a concise, readable syntax. Moreover, Ruby has the support of a rich ecosystem of open-source tools and libraries.

Ten insightful chapters each explain and demonstrate a command-line best practice. You’ll see how to use these tools to elevate the lowliest automation script to a maintainable, polished application.

You’ll learn how to use free, open source parsers to create user-friendly command-line interfaces as well as command suites. You’ll see how to use defaults to keep options simple for everyday users, while giving advanced users options for more complex tasks.

There’s no reason a command-line application should lack documentation, whether it’s part of a help command or a man page; you’ll find out when and how to use both. Your journey from command-line novice to pro ends with a look at valuable approaches to testing your apps, and includes some fun techniques for outside-the-box, colorful interfaces that will delight your users.

With Ruby, the command line is not dead. Long live the command line.

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