Cybersecurity for Small Businesses and Nonprofits is a must read for the small business owner. Worldwide, over 40% of all cyber-attacks happen to small businesses, and nearly 60% of the businesses that have had their digital systems breached close their doors within 6 months. This book provides an overview of the current cybersecurity situation, explains cyber threats specific to small businesses, and offers suggestions that owners can utilize to protect their businesses and livelihoods fr...

Women in Cybersecurity provides a basic overview of the employment status of women in the cybersecurity field. While women comprise over 50% of the workforce in the U.S, less than 25% of cyber staff are female. This book offers a close look at the current status of women in the cybersecurity arena, highlights reasons for the paucity of women, and--relying both on research and personal experience--offers suggestions that will encourage women to join this technical field.

Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social changeMany books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any directi...

Find and buy premium looking domain names cheaply and sell it high price.There are several ways of selling a domain name. You can make thousands of dollars by selling it at the right time. The investment is so low that it will not hurt you. And its easy and fun.Here’s your opportunity to earn millions in a single day. By learning the right techniques, you can be among the top domain nam...

The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management wisdom” isn’t wise at all-but, instead, flawed knowledge based on best practices” that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health.Jeffrey ...

Turning good ideas into marketable software quickly is now a business imperative for every enterprise. Delivering software features faster and with high quality is the first critical step. The subsequent step is to rapidly collect feedback from users to guide the next set of ideas for further improvements. Critical software development objectives such as these set the stage for The IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery: Delivering Software in Days, Instead of Months. The book champions...

The QuickStudy Management guide can be helpful for students or corporate executives. The guide contains a full array of management topics from ethics to globalization.

Use the power of questions to accelerate your sales process and gain client commitment.Skillfully build rapport. Establish your credibility. Uncover a client’s issues. Determine if your prospect is really ready to buy. Get commitment to a next step. Power Questions to Win the Sale provides specific strategies and techniques to help you successfully manage the most common challenges in sales. For each step in the sales process, it gives you a series of thou...

How can you inspire your employees to the high levels of engagement that drive strong results across the board?Drawing on over 30 years of research and data from more than two million constituents around the world, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge, expand on their work with The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership to create a new metric—Positive Workplace Attitudes—addressing how leaders affect employee eng...

In the wake of the NSA surveillance outcry and ad companies tracking you online, what can you do to protect your privacy when you go online? This collection of stories, tips and guides will help you do just that. It includes in-depth stories that ran on the PBS MediaShift website over the past few years, as well as sections from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Surveillance Self-Defense Guide, updated for today's environment. There's also a lengthy chapter about using encryption from t...

Expert advice for helping an applicant’s chances of acceptance by choosing the right words and phrasesAs a teacher, professor, or an employer, you are often called upon for letters of recommendation--and probably as often find yourself stumped about what to say. It can be a daunting task when someone’s future is in the balance. This book, written by a writing expert, will help you find the right words--and avoid the pitfalls--of creating a letter of recommendation....

The only book that instructs IT Managers to adhere to federally mandated certification and accreditation requirements.This book will explain what is meant by Certification and Accreditation and why the process is mandated by federal law. The different Certification and Accreditation laws will be cited and discussed including the three leading types of C&A: NIST, NIAP, and DITSCAP. Next, the book explains how to prepare for, perform, and document a C&A project. The next section to the book ...