The Art of Network Architecture is the first book that places business needs and capabilities at the center of the process of architecting and evolving networks, where it belongs. Three pioneering network architects show how to evaluate both business and application requirements from a network designer's perspective, identifying crucial upfront questions that can help the reader shape networks that support current business strategy and provide flexibility for the future.

175+ Cybersecurity Misconceptions and the Myth-Busting Skills You Need to Correct Them

Elected into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame!

Cybersecurity is fraught with hidden and unsuspected dangers and difficulties. Despite our best intentions, there are common and avoidable mistakes that arise from folk wisdom, faulty assumptions about the world, and our own human biases. Cybersecurity implementations, investigations, and research all suffer as a result. Many of the bad practices sound l...

Network Programmability and Automation, Volume 1, covers designing, implementing, monitoring and operating networks using programmable interfaces on network devices versus the legacy (and soon-to-be obsolete) methods and protocols such as the Command Line Interface (CLI) and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). It discusses the protocols, tools, techniques and technologies upon which Network Programmability is based.

Covering the fundamentals that a network engineer needs to transition ...

Stevens' name appears first on the earlier edition.

Strategic Monoliths and Microservices helps business decision-makers and technical team members collaborate to clearly understand their strategic problems, and identify their optimal architectural approaches, whether those turn out to be distributed microservices, well-modularized monoliths, or coarse-grained services partway between the two. Writing for MBA and IT students alike, leading software architecture expert Vaughn Vernon and Tomasz Jasku+éa guide you through making balanced archite...

Digital Forensics, Investigation, and Response, Fourth Edition begins by examining the fundamentals of system forensics: what forensics is, an overview of computer crime, the challenges of system forensics, and forensics methods and labs. The second part of this book addresses the tools, techniques, and methods used to perform computer forensics and investigation. These include collecting evidence, investigating information hiding, recovering data, and scrutinizing email.

It also discusses ho...