Complex and controversial, hackers possess a wily, fascinating talent, the machinations of which are shrouded in secrecy. Providing in-depth exploration into this largely uncharted territory and focusing on the relationship between technology and crime, this volume offers insight into the hacking realm by telling attention-grabbing tales about the bizarre characters who practice hacking as an art. Applying the behavioral science of criminal profiling to the world of internet predators, the text addresses key issues such as the motivation behind hacking and whether it is possible to determine a hacker’s profile on the basis of his behavior or types of intrusion.
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Expectations for performance management continue to grow in the public sector, but there remains little understanding on how to effectively implement and sustain these systems. This volume discusses the practical challenges involved in performance measurement efforts and provides context-sensitive guidelines to overcome these obstacles. The book presents theoretical background, empirical studies, and recommendations for theory and practice in order to support practical efforts to build successful performance management systems in public organizations. Developing a framework for analysis, the text offers new insight on the factors that affect implementation.
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Personnel and Human Resource Management
Government
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Mukesh Jain of Microsoft details how TSP techniques can be followed to plan the right project, take the right steps, and get the right results, every time. The author shares real world experience through his implementation of TSP at Microsoft India and documents how the TSP teams delivered high quality software on schedule and within budget. Through this case study, he examines how teams improved the software development process by combining TSP with Six Sigma. This combination delivered significant benefits in predictability and dramatically increased the number of zero-defect projects. The book also explores common pitfalls to avoid while implementing TSP and the coaching of TSP teams.
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Management of IT
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Offering practical advice along with templates, checklists, and directions to public domain information, Business Resumption Planning, Second Edition assists in creating a solid disaster response and recovery plan for any size organization whether the situation involves computers, communications, or infrastructure. Experienced consultant Leo Wrobel presents methods for the implementation and maintenance of infrastructure continuity planning. He offers updated techniques for conducting a business impact analysis and computing the probability of a disaster. He also discusses the Sarbanes-Oxley act. An included CD provides a host of worksheets and audit forms.
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Computing & IT Security
Security Services
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Offering a practical way to generate effective and efficient project-specific system architecture engineering methods, this volume addresses the entire range of systems architecture including hardware, software, subsystems, and systems of systems. It defines a set of architectural roles and teams and provides a repository of reusable architectural engineering process components to develop high-quality system architectures. It examines a cohesive set of tailorable tasks and components steps for producing associated architectural work products and establishes a recommended set of industry best practices for engineering the architecture of software-intensive systems. The book provides numerous tables and figures to give readers speedy access to highly useful information.
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Systems & Control Engineering
Management of IT
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Handbook of Algorithms for Physical Design Automation provides a detailed overview of VLSI physical design automation, placing particular emphasis on state-of-the-art techniques, trends, and improvement that have emerged over the last decade. After a brief introduction to the modern physical design problem, basic algorithmic techniques, and partitioning, the book discusses significant advances in floorplanning representations and describes recent formulations of the floorplanning problem. It also addresses issues of placement, net layout and optimization, routing multiple signal nets, manufacturability, physical synthesis, special nets, and designing for specialized technologies
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Microelectronics
Computer Engineering
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In this age of globalization, it is important for process improvement practitioners to be able to comprehend and work with the different standards and frameworks used around the world. This volume assists users in becoming more versatile using multiple process standards when creating their organizational and project processes. The book examines the structure and content of Capability Maturity Model Integration SM , version 1.2. It then provides summaries of several ISO standards, and discusses the detailed relationships between four specific ISO standards and CMMI®. It also introduces process mapping and illustrates how mappings can be used to advantage when comparing different frameworks.
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Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Systems & Control Engineering
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Based on the seminars of Tom Peltier, this volume presents the various processes that an organization can employ in assessing risk, fully detailing each of its strengths and weaknesses. This information will allow managers to determine what processes best fit the needs of a given situation to mitigate risk levels. Always conscious of the bottom line, the author discusses the cost-benefit analysis of risk mitigation and looks at specific ways to manage costs. The conclusions presented are supported by numerous case studies and explained through diagrams that show how to apply risk management skills in an organization with regard to any business endeavor.
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Business Information Systems
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Examining current trends and problems that have plagued application development for more than a decade, this book provides a foundation for security risk assessment and management during software development. It demonstrates how to achieve greater application security through assessing and managing risk throughout the entire software development life cycle using a test case based on the author’s personal experience in software development. The book covers methods used to assess risk, discussing the pros and cons of each method. Readers are then guided through each step of the process. The book concludes with discussions of how to sustain a risk assessment and risk management process within an organization.
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With an emphasis on hazard analysis, this volume assesses critical preparedness issues that emergency personnel must face in the event of a disaster of any kind. The author discusses the nature and consequences of such hazards and examines strategies at the individual, organizational, community, and regional levels. He presents a systematic process for hazard identification, vulnerability determination, and consequence assessment for natural, built, and human environments. Covering every step, from planning and preparedness to mitigation, response, and recovery, the book provides information on hazard identification, modeling, loss estimation, risk perception and definition, and sustainability.
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