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Building with earthquakes is a familiar yet persistent design problem for resilient construction on all continents. This book elaborates on various factors for earthquake-resilient architecture in six thematic chapters that explore the design strategies of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity and consistency. These factors allow designers to develop contextual solutions that marry technical know-how with social and cultural understanding, ranging in scale from buildings to furniture and urban master plans. 120 case studies from roughly 30 countries, including some highly prestigious buildings, provide a comprehensive overview of the different design strategies. Comprehensive overview of a key global issueIncludes numerous, superbly illustrated case studiesExamines design thinking applied in contemporary practice Read more

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 3e is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts presented in this book explain the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental factors to minimize loss and crime and to maximize productivity.This practical guide addresses several environmental settings, including major event facilities, small retail establishments, downtown streets, residential areas, and playgrounds. A one-stop resource with explanations of criminal behavior and the historical aspects of design, it teaches both the novice and the expert in crime prevention how to use the environment to affect human behavior in a positive manner.Fully updated with substantial new material in each chapterUseful illustrations describe the design and layout concepts in an easy to understand mannerWritten by a well-qualified author in the field of crime prevention Read more

Lockpicking has become a popular topic with many in the security community. While many have chosen to learn the fine art of opening locks without keys, few people explore the fascinating methods of attack that are possible WITH keys. Keys to the Kingdom addresses the topics of impressioning, master key escalation, skeleton keys, and bumping attacks that go well beyond any treatment of these topics in the author's previous book, Practical Lock Picking.This material is all new and focuses on locks currently in use as well as ones that have recently emerged on the market. Hackers and pen testers or persons tasked with defending their infrastructure and property from invasion will find these techniques uniquely valuable. As with Deviant Ollam's previous book, Practical Lock Picking,  Keys to the Kingdom includes full-color versions of all diagrams and photographs. Check out the companion website which includes instructional videos that provide readers with a full-on training seminar from the author.- Excellent companion to Deviant Ollam's Practical Lock Picking- Understand the typical failings of common security hardware in order to avoid these weaknesses- Learn advanced methods of physical attack in order to be more successful with penetration testing- Detailed full-color photos in the book make learning easy, and companion website is filled with invalualble training videos from Dev! Read more

���� Get Ready to Master Cybersecurity with Our Ultimate Book Bundle! ����Are you ready to take your cybersecurity skills to the next level and become a certified expert in IT security? Look no further! Introducing the CySA+ Study Guide: Exam CS0-003 book bundle, your comprehensive resource for acing the CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) certification exam.���� Book 1: Foundations of Cybersecurity ����Kickstart your journey with the beginner's guide to CySA+ Exam CS0-003! Dive into the fundamental concepts of cybersecurity, including network security, cryptography, and access control. Whether you're new to the field or need a refresher, this book lays the groundwork for your success.���� Book 2: Analyzing Vulnerabilities ����Ready to tackle vulnerabilities head-on? Learn advanced techniques and tools for identifying and mitigating security weaknesses in systems and networks. From vulnerability scanning to penetration testing, this book equips you with the skills to assess and address vulnerabilities effectively.���� Book 3: Threat Intelligence Fundamentals ����Stay ahead of the game with advanced strategies for gathering, analyzing, and leveraging threat intelligence. Discover how to proactively identify and respond to emerging threats by understanding the tactics and motivations of adversaries. Elevate your cybersecurity defense with this essential guide.���� Book 4: Mastering Incident Response ����Prepare to handle security incidents like a pro! Develop incident response plans, conduct post-incident analysis, and implement effective response strategies to mitigate the impact of security breaches. From containment to recovery, this book covers the entire incident response lifecycle.Why Choose Our Bundle?✅ Comprehensive Coverage: All domains and objectives of the CySA+ certification exam are covered in detail.✅ Practical Guidance: Learn from real-world scenarios and expert insights to enhance your understanding.✅ Exam Preparation: Each book includes practice questions and exam tips to help you ace the CySA+ exam with confidence.✅ Career Advancement: Gain valuable skills and knowledge that will propel your career in cybersecurity forward.Don't miss out on this opportunity to become a certified CySA+ professional and take your cybersecurity career to new heights. Get your hands on the CySA+ Study Guide: Exam CS0-003 book bundle today! �������� Read more

The world about a week ago witnessed what is probably the largest Cyber Supply Chain Attack ever known to humankind. The magnitude of this attack only merely underscores the sheer level of interconnectivity that exists today. Because of this, the chances of this happening many more times is very high. For instance, all it takes is just one weakness, vulnerability, or a backdoor for the Cyberattacker to exploit, and from there, deploy the malicious payload which will then be sent to thousands of victims worldwide.This book will focus not only upon the two previous Supply Chain Attacks have recently happened, but it will also focus upon the Critical Infrastructure here in the United States. This includes the food supply chain, the water supply system the national power grid, and even the nuclear power facilities. Many of these establishments have been built with technology that was developed in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Many of the vendors that built these technologies are now, for the most part, no longer in existence. Many of these are ICS and SCADA systems, and as a result, they also have many vulnerabilities from which a Cyberattacker can penetrate into a launch malicious payload, which will result in yet another form of a Cyber Supply Chain Attack.Therefore, this book will focus upon the following:*A Review Of the Critical Infrastructure of the United States*A Review Of the Solar Winds Supply Chain Attack*A Review As To How A Malicious Payload Can Created And Inserted, using SQL Injection Attacks as the primary example.*A Critical Examination As To How Supply Chain Attacks Can Be Mitigated. Read more

A must-read exploration of lock and physical security from a renowned author and expertIn Tobias on Locks and Insecurity Engineering, renowned investigative attorney and physical security expert Marc Weber Tobias delivers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of how locks are designed, built, and ― ultimately ― defeated by criminals, spies, hackers, and even lockpickers. In the book, you'll discover the myriad ways that security experts and bad actors have compromised physical locks using everything from the newest 3D printers to 99-cent ballpoint pens. The book explores the origins of different lock designs and the mistakes that design engineers make when they create new locks. It explains the countless ways that locks remain at risk for attack. The author explains the latest lock designs and technology, as well as how to assess whether a specific solution will work for you depending on your individual security requirements and use case. You'll also find: Ways to differentiate between fatally flawed locks and solid, secure optionsSeveral relevant and real-world case examples of catastrophic lock design failures that led to monetary loss, property damage, or bodily harmExaminations of lock security from the perspectives of forced entry, covert entry, and key-controlAn instructive and indispensable roadmap to locks and physical security, Tobias on Locks and Insecurity Engineering is the perfect guide for security and information technology professionals, design engineers, risk managers, law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, regulators, policymakers, investigators, lawyers, and more. Read more

This is a book about the intersection of architecture and security, about effective crime prevention and counterterror using the built form. While security professionals continue their strive towards alleviating our fear of crimes, and whilst methodologies like CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) have demonstrated the impact of design on prevention of crime over the last five decades, too many built environment professionals are not aware of these strategies. This book starts with the premise that there is a huge role for the design fraternity (namely architects and planners) in achieving realistic, efficient and permanent results, and ultimately in creating a safer world. It seeks to present such strategies in a palatable way and encourage professionals to incorporate security thinking into their design process as second nature. Combining international case studies including One World Trade Centre, New York; WHO Headquarters Extension Building, Geneva; and the Akshardham Temple, New Delhi, along with numerous examples from the author’s professional career, this book offers a systematic approach to integrating security into built environment design for easy adoption by architects, planners, security professionals and policymakers. Read more

Any security provider will be perfectly willing to take your money, but how much value are they really providing? This is one industry that’s notorious for unrealistic marketing and broken promises, all based on the myth that home security is somehow difficult and the technology too complex for the layman to comprehend. The author will not tell you how to install an alarm system or build a fence. Instead, it will give you the knowledge needed to intelligently evaluate your security situation and take appropriate steps towards improving it. Packed with examples from within the industry, and free of any advertising or product endorsements, this book emphasizes practical, cost-effective measures based on how intrusions are typically conducted in the real world. Covering physical barriers, CCTV, alarm systems and more, this book is designed to save you money by taking a rational, functional approach to security planning. Read more

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of store windows with our coloring book. This book invites you to rediscover the beauty and art of store windows, from the elegant simplicity of small boutiques to the sumptuous facades of department stores.Book Features :Meticulous illustrations: each page features beautifully drawn shop windows, ready to be brought to life with your favorite colors. Illustrations range from festive scenes to seasonal themed window displays, art exhibits and contemporary designs.High-quality paper: We've chosen thick, resistant paper to prevent ink spillage and enable comfortable use with different types of pencils, felt-tips and watercolors.Ideal format: With its practical dimensions (21.6 x 27.9 cm), this book is perfect for use at home or on the move, offering a relaxing and enjoyable coloring experience.Creative inspiration: In addition to the coloring drawings, each page contains inspiring anecdotes and descriptions of the history and design of the shop windows, immersing you in the magical atmosphere of the world's most famous stores.For All Ages: Whether you're an adult looking to relax or a child bursting with creativity, this book is for everyone who loves coloring and elegant window displays.Why You'll Love It:Escape and Relaxation: coloring is a soothing activity that helps reduce stress and stimulate creativity. Escape into the world of store windows and let yourself be carried away by the pleasure of creating.Perfect gift: Give this book to friends, family or colleagues. It's the perfect gift for holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, or just to please.Decorative and inspiring: Once colored, the pages can be framed and used as unique and personal decorative elements, adding an artistic touch to any space.Available now on Amazon! Read more

Log Into My AccountIn today's digital world, managing online accounts is an essential element of our daily lives. Passwords, usernames, and countless login details require organization and secure storage. Introducing the "Log Into My Account" logbook, your comprehensive solution for managing your online identity with confidence.Then, this small notebook is suited to you. with those information forms:Platform/ServiceURL/WebsiteUsername/IDPasswordPinSecurity QuestionsYou can list up to 324 of your accountsBook Details 110 PagesSize: 6 x 9 Inches Glossy Paperback Cover Read more

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FRONTS uncovers a growing geography of codependence between the global security complex and the urban morphologies of the developing world, which it increasingly incriminates. Military training sites provide a lens through which we can better understand the shape of the city to come. Military doctrine has recently and dramatically shifted to view the world’s cities as suspect sites of potential aggression. As the majority of new urban life will manifest in informal development, the world is now more than ever explicitly divided in two camps―those who view the informal city as an opportunity, and those who view the informal city as a threat. This paradigmatic shift has set the stage for impending conflict between security and development interests, which use the informal city as their site. Read more

Independent directors of corporate boards understand the importance of cyber security as a business issue. Increased regulatory requirements, the onslaught of breaches, as well as the replacement of the corporate network perimeter with more third-party partnerships have all contributed to cyber security rising to the top of enterprise risks. Yet, many directors only receive a few brief cyber security updates during the year. Moreover, many directors have devoted their careers to other important business disciplines and may not fully grasp the technical concepts of cyber security.The challenge is that many publications on board cyber security governance address the topic at such a high level that it removes the important context of the cyber security details—or covers the topic too deeply with hard-to-understand technical language. These resources may often provide lists of security questions for directors to ask of their management team, but they do not provide the answers to the questions so that actionable oversight can be performed. What I would have wanted, and why you are probably reading this book summary, is a resource that delivers the questions to ask but also provides the answers and in a narrative, easy-to-understand style.An award-winning Chief Information Security Officer with over two decades of working with multiple Fortune 500 boards, Lee Parrish provides an example-laden vision to improve cyber security governance in the boardroom. Additionally, Lee deciphers the technical jargon to increase the reader’s cyber fluency—not to make you a cyber expert but to help you be able to ask direct questions, understand the answers provided, challenge strategies, and advise on important cyber decisions.Pick up your copy of The Shortest Hour: An Applied Approach to Boardroom Governance of Cyber Security today and start your journey on achieving more effective cyber security oversight.Want to learn more? Please visit www.novelsecurity.com Read more

A value-packed two-book set that combines the best of engineering dependable and secure software systems with the best in-depth look at physical lock security and insecurityIn Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson updates his classic textbook and teaches readers how to design, implement, and test systems to withstand both error and attack. Now the latest edition brings it up to date for 2020. As people now go online from phones more than laptops, most servers are in the cloud, online advertising drives the Internet and social networks have taken over much human interaction, many patterns of crime and abuse are the same, but the methods have evolved. Ross Anderson explores what security engineering means in 2020, including:How the basic elements of cryptography, protocols, and access control translate to the new world of phones, cloud services, social media and the Internet of ThingsWho the attackers are – from nation states and business competitors through criminal gangs to stalkers and playground bulliesSecurity psychology, from privacy through ease-of-use to deception The economics of security and dependability – why companies build vulnerable systems and governments look the other wayHow to manage security and safety engineering in a world of agile development – from reliability engineering to DevSecOpsSecurity Engineering ends with a grand challenge: sustainable security. As we build ever more software and connectivity into safety-critical durable goods like cars and medical devices, how do we design systems we can maintain and defend for decades? Or will everything in the world need monthly software upgrades, and become unsafe once they stop?In Tobias on Locks and Insecurity Engineering, renowned investigative attorney and physical security expert Marc Weber Tobias delivers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of how locks are designed, built, and ― ultimately ― defeated by criminals, spies, hackers, and even lockpickers. In the book, you'll discover the myriad ways that security experts and bad actors have compromised physical locks using everything from the newest 3D printers to 99-cent ballpoint pens.The book explores the origins of different lock designs and the mistakes that design engineers make when they create new locks. It explains the countless ways that locks remain at risk for attack.The author explains the latest lock designs and technology, as well as how to assess whether a specific solution will work for you depending on your individual security requirements and use case. You'll also find ways to differentiate between fatally flawed locks and solid, secure options as well as examinations of lock security from the perspectives of forced entry, covert entry, and key-control.Together these two books are the perfect guides for security and information technology professionals, design engineers, risk managers, law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, regulators, policymakers, investigators, lawyers, and more. Read more

The book is part of FAST’s ongoing activism, research, design, and advocacy work. It builds on earlier presentations, including the exhibition BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions for the Dutch Pavilion of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. At the intersection of architecture, urban planning, international relations and activism, BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions seeks not only to change UN missions but also to open up and expand the operative realm of architecture. It combines research and projects involving policymakers, military engineers and officers, anthropologists, local inhabitants, activists, rebels, diplomats and ministers, architects and planners. BLUE offers examples of how entrenched institutional bureaucracies can be confronted by using more inclusive models of engagement, and it shows how designs rooted in local cultures and empowerment can address a history of violence. Read more

America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years. Corrections and Collections explores and connects these two massive expansions in our built environment. Author Joe Day shows how institutions of discipline and exhibition have replaced malls and office towers as the anchor tenants of U.S. cities. Prisons and museums, though diametrically opposed in terms of public engagement, class representation, and civic pride, are complementary structures, employing related spatial and visual tactics to secure and array problematic citizens or priceless treasures. Our recent demand for museums and prisons has encouraged architects to be innovative with their design, and experimental with their scale and distribution through our cities. Contemporary museums are the petri dishes of advanced architectural speculation; prisons remain the staging grounds for every new technology of constraint and oversight. Now that criminal and creative transgression are America’s defining civic priorities, Corrections and Collections will recalibrate your assumptions about art, architecture, and urban design. Read more

It seems that every day there’s a new story about a security lapse, emergency lock-down, or violent act taking place at a school somewhere in the United States. Today it’s simply inexcusable not to have adequate security measures in place―regardless of how safe you think your community may be. In School Security, author Paul Timm, a nationally acclaimed school security expert, explains how to make your institution a safer place to learn with easy-to-follow steps.Throughout the book, Timm emphasizes a proactive rather than reactive approach to school security. Readers are introduced to basic loss prevention and safety concepts, including how to communicate safety information to students and staff, how to raise security awareness, and how to prepare for emergencies. The book discusses how to positively influence student behavior, lead staff training programs, and write sound security policies. An entire chapter is dedicated to describing what school security resources are available for follow-up reading and further training. School Security isn’t just a book for security professionals: it helps people without formal security training―namely, educators and school administrators―effectively address school risk.Serves as a comprehensive guide for building an effective security program at little or no cost.Covers fundamental crime prevention concepts, making it suitable for both school security professionals and educators with no formal security training.Addresses the risks commonly facing school administrators today, from access control to social media.Takes a holistic approach to school security rather than focusing on a particular threat or event. Read more

This is a compelling compilation of essays by international architectural theorists on the relationship of violence to space. With the events of September 11th, the London bombings, the Madrid train explosions, and the daily blasts in Baghdad, the question of violence and terrorism is imposing architectural ramifications with renewed urgency. A new sense of architectural awareness has been forged as violence is forcing its place as an architectural datum.Wide-ranging contributions approach design issues related to violence through multiple angles and intersections.We only need to flip casually through the repertoire of the built environment to realize that certain built structures (from concentration camps to separation walls, from jails to propaganda exhibitions, from slaughterhouses to suburban complexes, from illegal settlements to palaces) either sanction violence or give it a spatial ground to happen and thrive. Read more