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 | Cyber Essentials: A guide to the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certifications ($27.99 Value) FREE for a Limited TimeThis book is a practical guide to achieving Cyber Essentials certification, a key step in protecting your organization from cyber threats. It starts with an overview of the Cyber Essentials scheme and explains why certification is crucial. The book covers common cyber attacks like ransomware, social engineering, and denial of service, helping you understand potential threats. It then explores essential technical controls needed for certification, such as firewalls, secure configurations, user access control, and malware protection. It also highlights best practices like managing security updates to keep systems secure. Each chapter offers actionable advice on implementing these controls, emphasizing their role in strengthening your cybersecurity framework. The book concludes with a detailed look at the Cyber Essentials certification process. It guides you through preparing for certification, completing the checklist, and undergoing the assessment. Additional resources and tips for Cyber Essentials Plus certification are included for those seeking further guidance. This comprehensive guide provides the knowledge and tools to secure your organization, achieve certification, and maintain strong cybersecurity resilience. |
 | Machine Learning and AI for Absolute Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to AI and Machine Learning for Newcomers ($18.99 Value) FREE for a Limited TimeThis book is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. It begins with the foundational principles of AI, offering a deep dive into its history, building blocks, and the stages of development. Readers will explore key AI concepts and gradually transition to practical applications, starting with machine learning algorithms such as linear regression and k-nearest neighbors. Through step-by-step Python tutorials, the book helps readers build and implement models with hands-on experience. As the book progresses, readers will dive into advanced AI topics like deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and generative AI. Topics such as recommender systems and computer vision demonstrate the real-world applications of AI technologies. Ethical considerations and privacy concerns are also addressed, providing insight into the societal impact of these technologies. By the end of the book, readers will have a solid understanding of both the theory and practice of AI and Machine Learning. The final chapters provide resources for continued learning, ensuring that readers can continue to grow their AI expertise beyond the book. |
 | Generation AI: Why Generation Alpha and the Age Of AI Will Change Everything ($30.00 Value) FREE for a Limited TimeA clear, practical guidebook to being a parent and professional in a world transformed by AI. In Generation AI, lifelong entrepreneur, futurist, and consumer trend expert Matt Britton explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping society, from consumer behavior to education, work, relationships, and health. As the first generation born into an AI-enabled world, Generation Alpha will experience a paradigm shift in lifestyle and career paths. Britton examines the unprecedented opportunities AI presents: personalized learning, advancements in healthcare, and automated consumer experiences and processes. Britton also confronts ethical and societal challenges, from privacy issues and economic disparity to the potential impact on mental health and job displacement. Balancing optimism with caution, Britton offers a forward-looking guide for leaders, parents, and individuals on how to navigate a future where AI drives cultural and economic transformation. Generation AI explores timely topics including: Consumer Behavior: AI-driven, personalized shopping and the role of the creator economy in capturing mindshare. Education: Exploring the future of education and the need for learnings to reinvent itself from a curriculum centered on memorization to one focused on problem solving and creativity. Work & Career: A deep dive into the AI powered developments driving disruption in the workplace and uncovering the skill sets needed to thrive. Mental Health & Relationships: Examines AI’s potential to both connect and isolate, impacting human interaction. Ethics & Privacy: The need for AI guardrails to protect privacy and ensure fairness amid rapid technological advances. Generation AI is a comprehensive and highly practical guide for all individuals looking to future proof themselves in this brave new world-especially Millennial parents, who are raising the first AI generation, grappling with the disruption of AI in their own lives, and seeking to understand the next stages of our technological evolution. |
 | Grey Area: Dark Web Data Collection and the Future of OSINT ($50.00 Value) FREE for a Limited TimeA compelling, first-hand account of the dark web, from its underground ecosystem, to the people responsible for committing data breaches and leaking data, 21st century’s most consequential data breaches, the responses to those attacks, and the impact of dark web data and intelligence gathering and can have in the defense and security of our nation. In Grey Area, veteran hacker and cybersecurity investigations expert Vinny Troia offers an unfiltered, first-person look into the evolving relationship between open-source intelligence (OSINT) and the dark web data ecosystem. Drawing from years of hands-on experience in digital forensics, dark web investigations, and adversarial engagement, Troia explores how publicly available and commercially available information-PAI and CAI-are rapidly becoming the backbone of modern intelligence operations, and how a human intelligence network of known cyber criminals helped identify and stop one of the largest data breaches in known history. This book examines the legal, operational, and ethical dimensions of collecting and exploiting data from the darkest corners of the internet, including leaked databases, breached credentials, and hidden criminal networks. It breaks down how to discover, process, validate, and operationalize this data in real-world contexts-from attribution and threat actor profiling to national security use cases. You’ll explore the evolution of OSINT within the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community through exclusive, first-hand accounts from senior officials who helped define its path. You’ll also learn how AI and automation tools are being used to validate data at scale, detect disinformation, and supercharge open-source investigations. The book also covers how data is stolen and what happens to it after the theft. Through his direct account as Reddington, Troia provides actual unedited conversations with the cyber criminals responsible for a hack targeting more than 160 companies, including his own interactions leading to the hack, the extortion negotiation and responses with each of the effected organizations, and how the hackers were ultimately brought to justice. From discussions of the legal grey areas of data collection, ransom negotiations, and a first-hand perspective of his interaction with well-known hackers, Grey Area is a compelling and honest account of the realities of the dark web, data theft, and ways in which the intelligence community should be leveraging these methods to help strengthen our national security. Inside the book: Blow-by-blow accounts of one of the largest data breaches in recorded history. Interviews and commentary from high level officials at the CIA, ODNI, DIA, and DOD. Informed, insightful commentary on how cybersecurity professionals are using dark web open-source intelligence to strengthen national security, and our country’s defenses against hackers and foreign adversaries. Revealing interviews with experienced hackers who explain a variety of approaches, philosophies, and strategies for combatting and recovering from data breaches. Grey Area is essential reading for cybersecurity professionals, intelligence analysts, investigators, and policy leaders navigating the complex intersection of dark web data, national security, and open-source intelligence. Through real-world case studies and insider accounts, it delivers actionable insight into the future of data-driven investigations, threat attribution, and the expanding role of OSINT in modern intelligence operations. Offer Expires 2/11/2026. |
 | Quick Leadership: Build Trust, Navigate Change, and Cultivate Unstoppable Teams ($20.00 Value) FREE for a Limited TimeLead bolder, smarter, and more human–without the ego or endless theory. Quick Leadership by Selena Rezvani equips you with modern, people-first strategies for leading in today’s fast-moving, fast-changing workplaces. Forget outdated, top-down management-this book is packed with real-world tips that help you build trust, boost performance, and bring out the best in your team (without burning yourself out). Selena Rezvani, a renowned leadership expert and coach, guides readers through simple, doable strategies that boost trust, inclusivity, and innovation – critical elements in a time when employees are demanding more purpose, autonomy, and respect in their work. In Quick Leadership, Rezvani offers a wealth of insights on how to cultivate a thriving work culture. The book explores various facets of leadership, from standing up to urgency culture to building psychological safety, honing communication that connects, promoting self-ownership and accountability, and handling the hard conversations. Each chapter distills actionable, low-ego leadership advice, backed by real-world examples and ready-to-use strategies. That way, you can be the powerhouse… without the power trip. Inside the book, readers will: Discover how to ditch the boss image and embrace the leader persona by deferring to your team at key moments, asking the right questions before offering solutions, and delegating in a way that empowers rather than micromanages. Learn to speak the language of equals by choosing communication that reflects collaboration and shared ownership-so you create an environment where everyone feels valued and equal, and ideas flow more freely. Embrace risk-taking and experimentation by creating safe spaces for trial and error and celebrating bold attempts-not just perfect outcomes-encouraging your team to innovate, learn fast, and keep pushing the envelope. Quick Leadership is especially valuable for current and aspiring leaders, HR professionals, and those shaping company strategy and culture. These readers will gain practical, no-nonsense insights from Rezvani on creating a workplace that’s not just healthier but more connected and driven. Whether you’re taking on a new leadership role or leveling up your skills, this book will be your go-to guide for navigating and thriving in today’s world of leadership. |
 | Rise of the Machines: A Project Zero Trust Story ($18.00 Value) FREE for a Limited TimeExpert guide to create Zero Trust digital environments in an AI-everywhere landscape. Rise of the Machines: A Project Zero Trust Storyis a continuation of the 2023 bestseller Project Zero Trust, picking up where the first book left off and addressing issues not covered in the first installment: artificial intelligence, mergers and acquisitions, antivirus, business continuity, and remote work. Artificial Intelligence is the dominant issue discussed in every chapter, providing a case-study-based approach to applying zero trust principles to all the various aspects of artificial intelligence, from MLOps, used by security teams, to use of GPTs, chatbots, and adversarial AI. AI transforms technology by enabling unprecedented automation and decision-making, but securing it with a Zero Trust approach is essential because AI inherently relies on trusted data and systems, making it a target for manipulation. The book also includes discussion around regulatory issues and the alignment of regulation around Zero Trust practices. Written by George Finney, 2024 recipient of the Baldrige Foundation Leadership Award for Cybersecurity and recognized as one of the top 100 CISOs in the world in 2022, this book provides key insights on: Appling the four Principles of Zero Trust to AI: Focusing On Business Outcomes, Designing From The Inside Out, Determining Who Or What Needs Access, and Inspecting And Logging All Traffic. Using the five steps of the Zero Trust Methodology to secure AI technologies: Defining Your Protect Surface, Mapping Transaction Flows, Architecting Your Environment, Creating Zero Trust Policies, and Monitoring and Maintaining Your Environment. The evolution of Adversarial AI to scale attacks and how security operations teams can integrate into the Zero Trust strategy to use AI to accelerate defense. Rise of the Machines: A Project Zero Trust Storyis a timely, essential read for all IT professionals across industries, including network engineers, system administrators, and cloud architects. |
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