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Identity theft and other confidential information theft have now topped the charts as the #1 cybercrime. In particular, credit card data is preferred by cybercriminals. Is your payment processing secure and compliant? Now in its second edition, PCI Compliance has been revised to follow the new PCI DSS standard 1.2.1. Also new to this edition: Each chapter has how-to guidance to walk you through implementing concepts, and real-world scenarios to help you relate to the information and better grasp how it impacts your data. This book provides the information that you need to understand the current PCI Data Security standards and how to effectively implement security on the network infrastructure in order to be compliant with the credit card industry guidelines and protect sensitive and personally identifiable information.

• Completely updated to follow the PCI DSS standard 1.2.1
• Packed with help to develop and implement an effective security strategy to keep infrastructure compliant and secure
• Both authors have broad information security backgrounds, including extensive PCI DSS experience

Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: About PCI and This Book Download Now »

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What do information security and the art of war have in common?
The answer, this book argues, is a great deal. Although the authors have an expert technical knowledge of information security, they strongly believe that technical and procedural measures cannot offer a solution on their own.

The human factor
Information security is not painting by numbers. You can tick all the right boxes and acquire the latest technology, and you may fail all the same. This is because information security is ultimately a human problem, not a technical one. In the end, the threats to your information security come from human beings, not from machines. Although one problem you will face is simple human error, the major threat to your business information is from the criminal.

Fight Cybercrime
Cybercrime is on the move. It is in a state of constant evolution, capable of adapting both to developments in technology and to whatever security measures its targets have already put in place. It will seek out your weak points in order to exploit them for its own advantage. However, although the people who want to harm your business will try to take you by surprise, they are also bound to have weaknesses of their own. Because the activity of the cybercriminal is both deliberate and hostile, they can be compared to a military adversary. So if you want to defend yourself from cybercrime you can learn from military strategy. Download Now »

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If you want to use CouchDB to support real-world applications, you’ll need to create MapReduce views that let you query this document-oriented database for meaningful data. With this short and concise ebook, you’ll learn how to create a variety of MapReduce views to help you query and aggregate data in CouchDB’s large, distributed datasets.

You’ll get step-by-step instructions and lots of sample code to create and explore several MapReduce views through the course of the book, using an example database you construct. To work with these different views, you’ll learn how to use the Futon web administration console and the cURL command line tool that come with CouchDB.

• Learn how the Map and Reduce steps work independently and together to index your data
• Use the example database to create several temporary views based on different criteria
• Discover the uses of Map and Reduce JavaScript functions
• Convert your temporary views to permanent views within a design document
• Learn several options for querying the data within your views
• Limit the number of results returned, skip some results, or reverse the order of the output
• Group your results by exact keys or by parts of keys Download Now »

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This short, concise book provides beginners with a selection of how-to recipes to solve simple problems with R. Each solution gives you just what you need to know to get started with R for basic statistics, graphics, and regression. These solutions were selected from O’Reilly’s R Cookbook, which contains more than 200 recipes for R that you’ll find useful once you move beyond the basics.

R is a powerful tool for statistics and graphics, but getting started with this language can be frustrating. This short, concise book provides beginners with a selection of how-to recipes to solve simple problems with R. Each solution gives you just what you need to know to use R for basic statistics, graphics, and regression.

You’ll find recipes on reading data files, creating data frames, computing basic statistics, testing means and correlations, creating a scatter plot, performing simple linear regression, and many more. These solutions were selected from O’Reilly’s R Cookbook, which contains more than 200 recipes for R that you’ll find useful once you move beyond the basics.

About the Author
Paul Teetor is a quantitative developer with Masters degrees in statistics and computer science. He specializes in analytics and software engineering for investment management, securities trading, and risk management. He works with hedge funds, market makers, and portfolio managers in the greater Chicago area. Download Now »

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Millions of public Twitter streams harbor a wealth of data, and once you mine them, you can gain some valuable insights. This short and concise book offers a collection of recipes to help you extract nuggets of Twitter information using easy-to-learn Python tools. Each recipe offers a discussion of how and why the solution works, so you can quickly adapt it to fit your particular needs. The recipes include techniques to:

• Use OAuth to access Twitter data
• Create and analyze graphs of retweet relationships
• Use the streaming API to harvest tweets in realtime
• Harvest and analyze friends and followers
• Discover friendship cliques
• Summarize webpages from short URLs

This book is a perfect companion to O’Reilly’s Mining the Social Web.

About the Author
Matthew Russell, Vice President of Engineering at Digital Reasoning Systems (http://www.digitalreasoning.com/) and Principal at Zaffra (http://zaffra.com), is a computer scientist who is passionate about data mining, open source, and web application technologies. Download Now »

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Smart Grids are the future of energy. By creating networks from power plant to home, utility companies will be able to regulate power consumption making sure that consumers are receiving the amount that is needed, no more or less. While this new use of networking technology and unique applications such as smart meters will help to conserve energy it also opens up a pipeline, that was regulated manually, into the computer world of interconnected networks. The infrastructure that is being built will need to have robust security as an attack on this network could create chaos to tens of thousands of power consumers, stop a utility company in its tracks, or be used in a cyberwar.

Securing the Smart Grid takes a look at grid security today, how it is developing and being deployed into now over 10 million households in the US alone. Direct attacks to smart meters as well as attacks via the networks will be detailed along with suggestions for defense against them. A framework for how security should be implemented throughout this growing system will be included directing security consultants, and system and network architects on how to keep the grid strong against attackers big and small.

• Details how old and new hacking techniques can be used against the grid and how to defend against them
• Discusses current security initiatives and how they fall short of what is needed Download Now »