The Insider: Best Practices Edition - Hardcover

Verton, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598007653 ISBN 13: 9781598007657

Publisher: Outskirts Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Reviews For Dan Verton's Work

For The Insider: Best Practices:
".insightful vision into the growing challenge of insider threats and the potential adverse impact on the national and economic security of this nation."
-- Bob Dix, former chief of staff, House Subcommittee on Technology Policy

For Black Ice:
"Dan Verton has 'connected the dots' like no one else can."
- Howard Schmidt, former chief security officer, Microsoft Corp., and former White House cybersecurity advisor

"The examples Verton unearths are certainly spooky... Genuine cyberterrorism will be as physical as a punch to the gut."
-- The Washington Post

About this title

About the Author:

Dan Verton is the author of the highly acclaimed book Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Mr. Verton has presented a behind-the-scenes look at his research into the high-tech future of terrorism to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Congress, the Air Force War College, the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI, and colleges and universities around the country. His other works include Grace Under Fire (Outskirts Press, 2006), The Insider: A True Story (Llumina Press, 2005) and The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers, published in 2002 by McGraw-Hill.

A former intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Verton is the first-place winner of the 2003 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for Best News Coverage for a series of reports on wireless network security threats at some of the nation's largest airlines and airports.

About this edition

• Publisher: Outskirts Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1598007653
• ISBN 13: 9781598007657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248