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  The Pentester BluePrint -...

  Phillip L. Wylie, Kim Crawley

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  JUMPSTART YOUR NEW AND EXCITING CAREER AS A PENETRATION TESTERThe Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker offers listeners a chance to delve deeply into the world of the ethical, or "white-hat" hacker. Accomplished pentester and author Phillip L. Wylie and cybersecurity researcher Kim Crawley walk you through the basic and advanced topics necessary to understand how to make a career out of finding vulnerabilities in systems, networks, and applications.You'll learn about the role of a penetration tester, what a pentest involves, and the prerequisite knowledge you'll need to start the educational journey of becoming a pentester. Discover how to develop a plan by assessing your current skillset and finding a starting place to begin growing your knowledge and skills. Finally, find out how to become employed as a pentester by using social media, networking strategies, and community involvement.Perfect for IT workers and entry-level information security professionals, The Pentester BluePrint also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone seeking to transition to the exciting and in-demand field of penetration testing.

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  A Practical Guide to Management...

  Alison Price, David Price

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  Motivate your team to go the extra mile.
  
  New managers, experienced managers or aspiring managers – learn how to understand your team and get the best out of them. 
  
  From hiring new members to dealing with poor performance, from goal setting to promoting work–life balance, understand how to foster effective employees with Alison and David Price's A–Z map to managerial success.
  
  Filled with expert insights, real-life case studies and proven techniques, this Practical Guide will make you a better manager – right now.

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  Boring Meetings Suck - Get More...

  Jon Petz

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  Author Jon  Petz, a former corporate executive and current corporate  entertainer who has keynoted meetings for groups ranging from  Wal-Mart to IBM, dares to address the boring elephant in the room:  where most of the millions of meetings held in the U.S. every day  are an unforgiveable waste of time and talent. Whats worse,  many of the books, blogs, and articles on the subject are as boring  as the meetings themselves. In  Boring Meetings Suck, Petz focuses on how attendees can take  charge of meetings that have become a waste of time and talent.  Most books on meetings focus only on the person responsible for  planning and hosting the meeting, but Boring Meetings Suck  dares to admit what other authors avoid. Only when attendees are  empowered to diplomatically speak up and get meetings back on track  will everyone benefit, instead of suffering in silence as an  ineffective chair or host loses control of their  proceedings. It offers dozens of  SRDs  Suckification Reduction Devices  to help  you make your next meeting efficient (get things done right) and  effective (get the right things done). It also  introduces a contrarian notion that meeting hosts should capitalize  on technology use during meetings versus curtail it. Instead of  telling people to turn OFF their digital devices, this book  suggests participants use these devices for instant crowd sourcing,  rapid dissemination of information to those affected by the  decisions and innovative note taking so important information is  not lost.

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  The AI Dilemma - 7 Principles...

  Juliette Powell, Art Kleiner,...

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  The misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide-this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm.
  
  AI holds incredible promise to improve virtually every aspect of our lives, but we can't ignore its risks, mishaps and misuses. Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner offer seven principles for ensuring that machine learning supports human flourishing. They draw on Powell's research at Columbia University and use a wealth of real-world examples.
   
  Four principles relate to AI systems themselves. Human risk must be rigorously determined and consciously included in any design process. AI systems must be understandable and transparent to any observer, not just the engineers working on them. People must be allowed to protect and manage their personal data. The biases embedded in AI must be confronted and reduced.
   
  The final three principles pertain to the organizations that create AI systems. There must be procedures in place to hold them accountable for negative consequences. Organizations need to be loosely structured so that problems in one area can be isolated and resolved before they spread and sabotage the whole system. Finally, there must be psychological safety and creative friction, so that anyone involved in software development can bring problems to light without fear of reprisal.
   
  Powell and Kleiner explore how to implement each principle, citing current best practices, promising new developments, and sobering cautionary tales. Incorporating the perspectives of engineers, businesspeople, government officials, and social activists, this book will help us realize the unprecedented benefits and opportunities AI systems can provide.

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  Escaping the Build Trap - How...

  Melissa Perri

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  To stay competitive in today's market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer's needs.In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You'll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small. In five parts, this book explores:● Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features represent● How to set up a product organization that scales● How product strategy connects a company's vision and economic outcomes back to the product activities● How to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product framework● How to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs

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  The Price of Misfortune - Rights...

  Daniel Platt

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  A history of the struggle for debtors’ rights from the Civil War to the Great Depression 
   
  What can be taken from someone who has borrowed money and cannot repay? What do the victims of misfortune owe to their lenders, and what can they keep for themselves? The answers to those questions, immensely important for debtors, creditors, and society at large, have changed over time. The Price of Misfortune examines the cause of debtors’ rights in the modern United States and the struggles of reformers who fought to establish financial freedoms in law. 
    
  Daniel Platt shows how, in the wake of the Civil War, a range of advocates drew potent analogies between slavery, imprisonment for debt, and the experiences of wage garnishment and property foreclosure. He traces the ways those analogies were used to campaign for bold new protections for debtors, keeping them secure in their labor, property, and personhood. Yet, as Platt demonstrates, those reforms tended to assume as their ideal borrower someone who was white, propertied, and male. In subsequent decades, the emancipatory promise of debtors’ rights would be tested as women, wage earners, and African Americans seized on their language to challenge other structural inequalities: the dependency of marriage, the exploitation of industrial capitalism, and the oppression of Jim Crow. By reconstructing these forgotten developments—and recovering the experiences of indebted farmwives, sharecroppers, and wage workers—The Price of Misfortune narrates a new history of inequality, coercion, and law amid the early financialization of American capitalism.

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