A casino was brought down by a ten-minute phone call. A supermarket's shelves went bare. The largest theft in human history was pulled off in a single afternoon. And almost every time, the door was left open by someone having an ordinary day.Your data lives on machines you will never see, run by strangers, flowing through plumbing you cannot inspect. When that plumbing bursts, you get a letter that begins, "we are writing to inform you of a data security incident."This is t...

A weapon made of code reached into a fortified bunker and tore apart a thousand machines. A hostile intelligence service sat silently inside a superpower's networks for nine months, and nobody noticed. And the most secure phone in the criminal underworld was secretly run by the police.This is cyberwar. And it is already here.In Breach II: Cyberwar, the second book in the Breach series, fifteen true stories trace the moment cybercrime stopped being ...

Preparing for the ITIL 5 Foundation exam but short on time to sit and read? This audio study guide turns your commute, gym session, or dog walk into focused exam prep. Narrated by certification author Anthony Biggs, this guide breaks down the newly launched ITIL 5 framework into simple, practical explanations that map directly to the exam objectives. You won't just learn what the concepts mean, you'll learn how they show up in real exam questions and how to approach them with confidence. I...

Accessible, concise, and interactive, this book introduces the mathematical methods that are indispensable in economics and finance. Fully updated to be as student friendly as possible, this edition contains extensive problems, worked examples and exercises (with full solutions at the end of the book). Two brand new chapters cover coupled systems of recurrence/differential equations, and matrix diagonalisation. All topics are motivated by problems from economics and finance, demonstrating ...

Mathematics has become indispensable in the modelling of economics, finance, business and management. Without expecting any particular background of the reader, this book covers the following mathematical topics, with frequent reference to applications in economics and finance: functions, graphs and equations, recurrences (difference equations), differentiation, exponentials and logarithms, optimisation, partial differentiation, optimisation in several variables, vectors and matrices, line...

The essays collected here celebrate mark the distinguished career of Professor W. Mark Ormrod, reflecting the vibrancy and range of his scholarship on the structures, personalities and culture of ruling late medieval England. Encompassing political, administrative, Church and social history, the volume focusses on three main themes: monarchy, state and political culture. For the first, it explores Edward III's reactions to the deaths of his kinfolk and cases of political defamation across ...

Kruger National Park in South Africa has one of the most extensive sets of records of any protected area in the world, and throughout its history has supported connections between science and management. In recognition of that long-standing tradition comes The Kruger Experience, the first book to synthesize/summarize a century of ecological research and management in two million hectares of African savanna.The Kruger Experience places the scientific and management...