Complete Series: Strengthening Application Security with Identity Fraud Prevention Systems
by Ken Hess

Can having a friendly conversation in a public place make you or your business a target for identity fraud? By inadvertently revealing personal information in such settings, anyone can open the door for identity theft, especially when standard knowledge-based authentication challenges and responses follow a set of “canned” replies to simple questions: your mother’s maiden name, your first pet’s name, your first car. In this new Essential Series entitled Strengthening Application Security with Identity Fraud Prevention Systems, IT expert and author Ken Hess shows you how to protect your clients from identity theft using new methods of verification and authentication. You will learn how to overcome regulatory compliance concerns surrounding knowledge-based authentication and verification and determine whether your current (or proposed) identity fraud prevention system will scale to meet future risks.Articles in this series include:Article 1: Incorporating Identity Verification and Knowledge-Based Authentication into Your ApplicationsArticle 2: Overcoming the Regulatory, Security, and Compliance Concerns of Knowledge-based AuthenticationArticle 3: The Evolution of Identity Verification and Authentication from Static to Data-Driven Questions

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CentOS Essentials is an online book designed to provide everything a user needs to know to install, use and administer a CentOS 5 Linux system, a free open source OS with the power and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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PowerShell Crash Course Week 1
by Don Jones

By now you’ve probably gotten the message loud and clear that Windows PowerShell is pretty important; Microsoft is adding it to more and more products, and going forward, the company’s plan is to incorporate PowerShell throughout all of its business products as a baseline administrative layer. For windows administrators who are new to PowerShell, Microsoft MVP Don Jones offers a new book entitled The Administrator Crash Course: Windows PowerShell v2. Covering the most crucial elements of PowerShell v2, Don has constructed a set of practical tips and practice exercises that will get you up to speed in a matter of weeks. Each course section is designed to be reviewed in under an hour, so it’s a perfect way to quickly learn how to begin using PowerShell v2!

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Here are 27downloadable Unix and Linux eBooks, covering theareas and topics listed below, including the LPI and RHCE cert exams.Unix and Linux ebook topics: - Linux ebooks - Linux Networking - Linux Administration - LPI Linux Certification exam ebooks - Red Hat RHCE Certification ebooks - Storage Virtualization - Unix - Unix Scripting - HP-UX - Solaris - Network and Computer Security

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This book provides a thorough and comprehensive treatment of fundamental data structures and the principles of algorithm analysis. Focuses on the principles required to select or design the data structure that will best solve the problem.

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This paper provides in-depth descriptions of both steganography, the art of hiding information within other information, and its counter-technique known as steganalysis.

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Chapter 1: The Problem with SharePoint Storage
by Don Jones

Every SharePoint administrator knows the challenge of dealing with SharePoint: The business wants to put everything in SharePoint so that as much data as possible is centrally located and managed; doing so, however, bloats the SharePoint SQL database and creates an administrative nightmare. How can you find your happy medium? How can you get as much data as possible into SharePoint - searchable, version-controlled, and secured - while keeping your database as trim as possible? The answer is storage optimization, and it’s the subject of this book by noted industry expert Don Jones. You’ll learn how to optimize SharePoint for the inclusion of large content items, external content items (like databases, shared files, and media files), and even “dormant” content that you no longer actively need - but can’t afford to get rid of.

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These lecture notes introduce the declarative programming language Prolog. The emphasis is on learning how to program, rather than on the theory of logic programming. Nevertheless, a short chapter on the logic foundations of Prolog is included as well.

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Complete Series: Creating a Small Business Website Your Customers Will Trust
by Greg Shields

You own a small business, perhaps even a micro business. Maybe you’re a plumber, or you sell customized golf balls. But while you’re good at what you do, you’re not necessarily a highly-technical person. You want to expand that business into the online world, but you’re not quite sure how to do so in a way that your customers will trust it. This Essentials Series explains the surprising similarities between offline and online businesses, showing you the seven reasons why your customers do business. It continues with a look at what’s primarily important to every business customer: The assurance of trust, and how reputation, visibility, and professionalism create that trust.Articles in this series include:Article 1: Seven Reasons Customers Do Business, Online and OfflineArticle 2: Creating a Website That Your Customers Will TrustArticle 3: Good Websites to Great: Adding Reputation, Visibility, and Professionalism

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