This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. The experiments highlight key information security problems that arise in modern operating systems, networks, and web applications. The authors explain how to identify and exploit such problems and they show different countermeasures and their implementation.

The reader thus gains a detailed understanding of how vul...

Modbus is one of the oldest industrial network protocols in existence, yet still the #3 in popularity. As of July 2018, a new version appeared on the market. Surprisingly, no one ever wrote a detailed book about Modbus. In this publication the author, who has some 30 years of experience with Modbus, gives a good introduction to the protocol in all its versions, with industrial networking background explained as well. Also, the author has added a lot of practical information about how to handl...

While several market-leading companies have successfully transformed through data- and AI-driven approaches to business, the vast majority have yet to reap the benefits. This practical guide presents a battle-tested method to help you translate business decisions into tractable descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive problems.

Einstein famously quoted: “…We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them….”. Einstein recognized that the thinking or mindset that led to the creation of a problem may not be sufficient to find a solution. If we continue to approach problems with the same mindset, we are likely to get stuck in a loop of repeating the same actions and expecting different results, which Einstein famously referred to as "insanity." This quote emphasizes the need for in...

The authors of this book guide the readers along the paths of adaptive information management in an era of constant change. Topics cover what information management is; why, how and when to deal with it; and who are involved in the organisational (change) management processes in short- and long-term. Adaptive Information Management thinking is a method that helps to understand modern society better. Its basic building blocks are the Amsterdam Information Management model and the Adaptive Cycl...

The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. Machine languages and natural languages spoken by people differ in that the signals of machine languages have sharply defined meanings, while the meanings of signals of natural languages are highly fuzzy.

Werner Rupprecht explains how vague meanings arise in the brains of human beings, and that, paradoxically, owing to s...