Product Description: Most IT Professionals rely on a small core of books that are targeted specifically at their job responsibilities. These dog-eared volumes are used on a daily basis and are considered essential. But budgets and space often limit just how many books can be added to your cored library...read more

The executive producer of such hits as Survivor shares the story of his own rise from obscurity to the heights of the entertainment world, imparting important lessons and effective advice on how to achieve personal and professional success through the use of decisive action and going with one's instincts. Reprint.

Provides instructions on generating reports that provide information to evaluate security infrastructures.

Product Description: User passwords are the keys to the network kingdom, yet most users choose overly simplistic passwords (like password) that anyone could guess, while system administrators demand impossible to remember passwords littered with obscure characters and random numerals...read more

This book is about software piracy--what it is and how it's done. Stealing software is not to be condoned, and theft of intellectual property and copyright infringement are serious matters, but it's totally unrealistic to pretend that it doesn't happen. Software piracy has reached epidemic proportions. Many computer users know this, the software companies know this, and once you've read the Introduction to this book, you'll understand why. Seeing how widespread software piracy is, learning how it's accomplished, and particularly how incredibly easy it is to do might surprise you. This book describes how software piracy is actually being carried out. * This book is about software piracy--what it is and how it's done* This is the first book ever to describe how software is actually stolen and traded over the internet* Discusses security implications resulting from over 1/2 of the internet's computers running illegal, unpatched, pirated software

Product Description: HIGHLIGHTWritten by Microsoft's Log Parser developer, this is the first book available on Microsoft's popular yet undocumented log parser tool. The book and accompanying Web site contain hundreds of customized, working scripts and templates that system administrators will find invaluable for analyzing the log files from Windows Server, Snort IDS, ISA Server, IIS Server, Exchange Server, and other products...read more

Describes threats to Web application code, covering such topics as password policies, encryption features in ASP.NET, securing XML, filtering user input, accessing data, and developing secure ASP.NET applications.

Product Description: Special Ops: Internal Network Security Guide is the solution for the impossible 24-hour IT work day. By now, most companies have hardened their perimeters and locked out the "bad guys," but what has been done on the inside? This book attacks the problem of the soft, chewy center in internal networks...read more

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Product Description: Written from the hacker's perspective, Maximum Windows 2000 Security is a comprehensive, solutions-oriented guide to Windows 2000 security. Topics include: Physical & File System Security, Password Security, Malicious Code, Windows 2000 Network Security Architecture and Professional Protocols, Web Server Security, Denial of Service Attacks, Intrusion Detection, Hacking Secure Code in Windows 2000...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Executive Producer of and the brilliant mind behind Survivor presents a wealth of advice, motivational vignettes, and valuable lessons drawn from his life experiences and challenges that encourages people to defy conformity, take risks, lead with compassion, learn through failure, revel in pain, and realize their goals. Read by the author.

Featuring an introduction by Mark Burnett, the official companion to the third season of CBS' highly popular reality show Survivor offers a wealth of techniques for surviving and conquering the elements in any situation, from first aid and identifying edible plants to constructing a shelter and traveling over every type of terrain. Original. (view table of contents)

Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the sixteen contestants, offering information on their personality traits and strategies for winning the game, and includes information on the challenges, locale, and hazards of the show. (view table of contents)

Provides a behind-the-scenes look at all thirteen episodes, information about the contestants and the host, and an interview with the last remaining survivor in which he reveals his winning strategies. (view table of contents)