Brian Russell

In show business, the gap between success and failure can be wafer thin. Maybe it's the difference between a promise and a white lie; between heady ambition and stark reality; between hitting a note and missing a beat. Brian Russell's candid life story is a journey across brightly lit cabaret stages and some shady back street deals. He honed his craft as a member of a Norwich band appearing in the outback of Norfolk and Suffolk and from there he went on to come within a whisker of national success on more than one occasion. For over half a century Brian has met and worked with a Who's Who of show business. The colourful and often hilarious stories are all there, from boozing with famous pop stars from the sixties and seventies to adventures in the Dubai desert with American rappers. In many ways he has the last laugh about that wafer thin gap.

Two companies race to create a controller that converts any car into a self-driving vehicle and earn millions from major automakers. Lead software developers Hera Lanz and Tom Brand from the crosstown rivals are under enormous pressure to be the first to market at any cost. Their battle spills out from cyberspace onto the streets of Miami in this high-stakes thriller.

A practical, indispensable security guide that will navigate you through the complex realm of securely building and deploying systems in our IoT-connected world Key Features Learn best practices to secure your data from the device to the cloud Use systems security engineering and privacy-by-design principles to design a secure IoT ecosystem A practical guide that will help you design and implement cyber security strategies for your organization Book DescriptionWith the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), businesses have to defend against new types of threat. The business ecosystem now includes the cloud computing infrastructure, mobile and fixed endpoints that open up new attack surfaces. It therefore becomes critical to ensure that cybersecurity threats are contained to a minimum when implementing new IoT services and solutions. This book shows you how to implement cybersecurity solutions, IoT design best practices, and risk mitigation methodologies to address device and infrastructure threats to IoT solutions. In this second edition, you will go through some typical and unique vulnerabilities seen within various layers of the IoT technology stack and also learn new ways in which IT and physical threats interact. You will then explore the different engineering approaches a developer/manufacturer might take to securely design and deploy IoT devices. Furthermore, you will securely develop your own custom additions for an enterprise IoT implementation. You will also be provided with actionable guidance through setting up a cryptographic infrastructure for your IoT implementations. You will then be guided on the selection and configuration of Identity and Access Management solutions for an IoT implementation. In conclusion, you will explore cloud security architectures and security best practices for operating and managing cross-organizational, multi-domain IoT deployments. What you will learn Discuss the need for separate security requirements and apply security engineering principles on IoT devices Master the operational aspects of planning, deploying, managing, monitoring, and detecting the remediation and disposal of IoT systems Use Blockchain solutions for IoT authenticity and integrity Explore additional privacy features emerging in the IoT industry, such as anonymity, tracking issues, and countermeasures Design a fog computing architecture to support IoT edge analytics Detect and respond to IoT security incidents and compromises Who this book is forThis book targets IT Security Professionals and Security Engineers (including pentesters, security architects and ethical hackers) who would like to ensure the security of their organization's data when connected through the IoT. Business analysts and managers will also find this book useful.

A practical, indispensable security guide that will navigate you through the complex realm of securely building and deploying systems in our IoT-connected world About This Book • Learn to design and implement cyber security strategies for your organization • Learn to protect cyber-physical systems and utilize forensic data analysis to beat vulnerabilities in your IoT ecosystem • Learn best practices to secure your data from device to the cloud • Gain insight into privacy-enhancing techniques and technologies Who This Book Is For This book targets IT Security Professionals and Security Engineers (including pentesters, security architects and ethical hackers) who would like to ensure security of their organization's data when connected through the IoT. Business analysts and managers will also find it useful. What You Will Learn • Learn how to break down cross-industry barriers by adopting the best practices for IoT deployments • Build a rock-solid security program for IoT that is cost-effective and easy to maintain • Demystify complex topics such as cryptography, privacy, and penetration testing to improve your security posture • See how the selection of individual components can affect the security posture of the entire system • Use Systems Security Engineering and Privacy-by-design principles to design a secure IoT ecosystem • Get to know how to leverage the burdgening cloud-based systems that will support the IoT into the future. In Detail With the advent of Intenret of Things (IoT), businesses will be faced with defending against new types of threats. The business ecosystem now includes cloud computing infrastructure, mobile and fixed endpoints that open up new attack surfaces, a desire to share information with many stakeholders and a need to take action quickly based on large quantities of collected data. . It therefore becomes critical to ensure that cyber security threats are contained to a minimum when implementing new IoT services and solutions. . The interconnectivity of people, devices, and companies raises stakes to a new level as computing and action become even more mobile, everything becomes connected to the cloud, and infrastructure is strained to securely manage the billions of devices that will connect us all to the IoT. This book shows you how to implement cyber-security solutions, IoT design best practices and risk mitigation methodologies to address device and infrastructure threats to IoT solutions. This book will take readers on a journey that begins with understanding the IoT and how it can be applied in various industries, goes on to describe the security challenges associated with the IoT, and then provides a set of guidelines to architect and deploy a secure IoT in your Enterprise. The book will showcase how the IoT is implemented in early-adopting industries and describe how lessons can be learned and shared across diverse industries to support a secure IoT. Style and approach This book aims to educate readers on key areas in IoT security. It walks readers through engaging with security challenges and then provides answers on how to successfully manage IoT security and build a safe infrastructure for smart devices. After reading this book, you will understand the true potential of tools and solutions in order to build real-time security intelligence on IoT networks.

Debut poetry by Brian Russell, winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize * Named a Best Book of the Year by Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation * The year of what now Are we the pure products and what Does that even mean pure isn't it Obvious we are each our own culture Alive with the virus that's waiting To unmake us. --from "The Year of What Now" "The Year of What Now is not a book of poems about cancer. It's not a book that wears its heart on its sleeve. It doesn't parade the autobiographical in your face, though the conventions seem at first to be autobiography. It's not a cry in extremis, de profundis, etc. It's more casual, more canny, more casually well-made, more philosophically oriented . . . This book seems to me to represent a way forward for other young poets in its wide engagement with the world, in its unabashed embrace of the personal, and its equally galvanizing skepticism about the limits of subjective speech. At its deepest level, it embodies the desire to establish true sequences of pain from the cellular level to the most abstract operations of culture, technology, and possible worlds of the spirit." --Tom Sleigh, Bakeless Prize judge, from the introduction