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"A definitive look at the origin of PayPal and its founding team--including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared. They have defined the modern world. This experience defined them"--
Fight back and save money with these expert tips Find out what spam and spyware cost your company, and how to stop them Whether yours is a one-person business or a multi-million dollar corporation, here's help giving spammers and spies the bum's rush. Two veterans of the spam wars help you analyze your situation, choose the right solutions, set up and maintain them, and even show the bean-counters why such defenses are essential. Discover how to * Understand how spammers get addresses * Calculate the cost of spam and spyware * Re-engineer your business processes * Select spam and spyware filters * Manage implementation and maintenance
Your hands-on guide to teaching adults. . . no matter what the subject In this expanded edition of How to Teach Adults, Dan Spalding offers practical teaching and classroom management suggestions that are designed for anyone who works with adult learners, particularly new faculty, adjuncts, those in community colleges, ESL teachers, and graduate students. This reader-friendly resource covers all phases of the teaching process from planning what to teach, to managing a classroom, to growing as a professional in the field. How to Teach Adults can guide new instructors who are trying to get up to speed on their own or can help teacher trainers cover what their students need to know before they ...
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) consist of software-controlled computing devices communicating with each other and interacting with the physical world through sensors and actuators. Because most of the functionality of a CPS is implemented in software, the software is of crucial importance for the safety and security of the CPS. This book presents principle-based engineering for the development and operation of dependable software. The knowledge in this book addresses organizations that want to strengthen their methodologies to build safe and secure software for mission-critical cyber-physical systems. The book: • Presents a successful strategy for the management of vulnerabilities, threats, and failures in mission-critical cyber-physical systems; • Offers deep practical insight into principle-based software development (62 principles are introduced and cataloged into five categories: Business & organization, general principles, safety, security, and risk management principles); • Provides direct guidance on architecting and operating dependable cyber-physical systems for software managers and architects.
Follow step-by-step guidance to craft a successful security program. You will identify with the paradoxes of information security and discover handy tools that hook security controls into business processes. Information security is more than configuring firewalls, removing viruses, hacking machines, or setting passwords. Creating and promoting a successful security program requires skills in organizational consulting, diplomacy, change management, risk analysis, and out-of-the-box thinking. What You Will Learn: Build a security program that will fit neatly into an organization and change dynamically to suit both the needs of the organization and survive constantly changing threats Prepare fo...
When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas’s long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time. Douglas was as much a thinker as he was a writer, and his artefacts reveal how his deep fascination with technology led to ideas which were far ahead of their time: a convention speech envisioning the modern smartphone, with all the information in the world living at our fingertips; sheets of notes predicting the advent of electronic books; journal entries from his forays into home computing – it is a matter of legend ...
일론 머스크, 피터 틸, 리드 호프먼, 맥스 레브친 등 실리콘밸리의 부흥을 이끈 일명 ‘페이팔 마피아’들은 현재 테크 산업계에서 가장 영향력 있는 조직으로 일컬어진다. 테슬라, 메타, 유튜브, 스페이스X, 팔란티어, 링크드인 등 이 시대를 이끈 수많은 기업을 창시하고 투자하고 경영한 이들의 시작점에는 모두 페이팔이 있었다. 이 책은 수백 건의 인터뷰와 수십만 장에 달하는 방대한 내부 문건을 토대로 페이팔이 어떻게 태동했고 성공했는지 그 전략을 낱낱이 파헤친다. 온라인 결제 시스템의 개념이 제대로 확립되지도 않았던 1990년대 말에서 2000년대 초, ‘전 세계 모든 돈의 중심이 되겠다’는 모토 아래 갈등과 불화를 딛고 끊임없는 도전과 혁신으로 4년 만에 1.6조의 기업 가치를 이룩한 이들이 그린 ‘현금 없는 세상’은 이제 현실이 됐다. 현대 핀테크 산업의 토대를 닦은 괴짜들의 이야기에 귀 기울여보자.