Security Smarts for the Self-Guided IT Professional“Get to know the hackers—or plan on getting hacked. Sullivan and Liu have created a savvy, essentials-based approach to web app security packed with immediately applicable tools for any information security practitioner sharpening his or her tools or just starting out.”—Ryan McGeehan, Security Manager, Facebook, Inc.Secure web applications from today's most devious hackers. Web Application Security: A Beginner's Guide...

NEW REVISED EDITION TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST MOON LANDINGWho were the Honeysuckle Creek mob? And how did they assist the first moon landing?When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of Australian technicians who tracked the spacecraft and sent the first television pictures to the world. No, not at Parkes - the movie 'The Dish' got it wrong. They were from Honeysuckle Creek in the ACT.This is their story, told by B...

10x The Power of Exponential Growth: Unleashing the Potential of 10x Growth and Achieving Success with Less Effort by BRYAN SULLIVANAre you tired of incremental progress that seems to require endless effort? In "10x The Power of Exponential Growth," Bryan Sullivan takes you on an eye-opening journey into the realm of exponential growth, where achieving 10 times the results with a fraction of the ef...

The Hands-On, Practical Guide to Preventing Ajax-Related Security VulnerabilitiesMore and more Web sites are being rewritten as Ajax applications; even traditional desktop software is rapidly moving to the Web via Ajax. But, all too often, this transition is being made with reckless disregard for security. If Ajax applications aren’t designed and coded properly, they can be susceptible to far more dangerous security vulnerabilities than conventional Web or desktop ...

You've just been promoted to a managerial position for the first time -- congratulations! But beware: the managerial role differs markedly from the individual contributor role. Go into the job with mistaken assumptions about what to expect, and you just may be blindsided by surprising realities.This book helps you lay the foundation for succeeding in your new role, explaining how to:· Discard the "doer" role of the individual contributor for the orchestrating role of the ma...

Think outside the box and get results with this practical guide. Written by a professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Exter Business School, it explains how you can use blue-sky thinking to promote creativity, enhance your business performance, and get ahead of the competition.Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "Ask Yourself" features show you how to conceive new ideas, develop new products, and implement new practices. Tables, illustrations,...

The Entrepreneurial Mindset shows you step-by-step the processes involved in becoming a successful entrepreneur and certain mindsets to imbibe while pointing to habits you must desist from if you want to create and maintain wealth. The authors present simple but powerful ways to stop thinking and acting by the old rules and start thinking with the discipline of a habitual entrepreneur.

Famous "Work-Out" change-management tool explained by the people who helped develop it.GE's legendary Work-Out program played a key role in the company's phenomenal success over the past decade and has been implemented in many other organizations. Now three executives and consultants who developed the original Work-Out approach at GEoften working directly with CEO Jack Welchdiscuss the inner workings of Work-Out and their experiences at successfully implementing the program at GE.

You can’t ask for more than efficient, effective operations.Or can you?Given today’s business landscape—increasing customer demand, global competition, lower trade barriers—being good isn’t enough. This groundbreaking guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to transform your organization from a well-run company to a relentlessly innovative company.Innovation expert Jeffrey Phillips has helped businesses around the world achieve the d...

Coach employees to ensure maximum performance, motivation and retention. Following a seven-step coaching process, Coaching for High Performance gives managers the tools to help their people excel at their jobs and meet competitive challenges with confidence. This book teaches managers how to communicate performance expectations, assess employee skill levels, establish the purpose of coaching, and agree on a coaching contract. Managers will learn the critical skills needed to conduct coaching ...

Coach Individuals, Teams, and Organizations to Greater Success with AgileAs Agilists work to increase an organization's Agility, they will run into major obstacles with mindset shifts, moving to self-organization, and organizational adoption. Over the past decade, more Agilists have been using Professional Coaching to help individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole uncover these obstacles and move forward faster.In Professional Coaching...

For more than twenty years, major innovations—the kind that transform industries and even societies—seem to have come almost exclusively from startups, despite massive efforts and millions of dollars spent by established companies. Tony Davila and Marc Epstein, authors of the bestselling Making Innovation Work, say the problem is that the very processes and structures responsible for established companies’ enduring success prevent them from developing breakthroughs. This is the innovation ...