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  Agile Requirements and User Stories

  Louis Molnar

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  Many organizations are starting to reap rewards from adding Agile methods to their development practices. Learn what Project Managers and Business Analysts need to know about Extreme Programming (XP), User Stories and “The Planning Game.” Specifically, this recording will give practical Agile tips and tricks including how to specify User Stories to effectively drive out your Client’s true business requirements.In this recording, you will: Understand how User Stories can be an effective technique for gathering user requirements. Learn tips & techniques on how to do User Stories effectively.Know how detailed User Stories need to be specified. Know exactly how many User Stories are required.Learn the PM’s and BA’s role in an XP development environment.

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  Ultimate Blockchain Security...

  Taha Sajid

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  KEY FEATURES 
  -  An in-depth examination of the security aspects of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hyperledger Fabric.
  -  Comprehensive coverage of smart contract vulnerabilities, attack analysis, and effective security measures.
  -  Leverage Blockchain Risk Management Framework for managing risks associated with blockchain technology
  -  Practical insights into testing and assessing the security of blockchain applications.
  -  Strategies and solutions for robust access control using blockchain-based identity and access management.
  -  Expert insights on identifying and categorizing risks using advanced threat modeling techniques.
  DESCRIPTIONThe Ultimate Blockchain Security Handbook will help you identify and remediate your Blockchain solution bugs before others do. Covering the latest threats and vulnerabilities, as well as effective mitigation strategies, it takes you on a journey from the security foundations of blockchain technology to implementing advanced security solutions for blockchain applications. It helps you identify, assess, and mitigate risks using a variety of tools and techniques, including threat modeling, penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, attack analysis, and security audits. It covers formal verification methods for testing smart contract code, with an application of the K semantic framework. It then explores a range of blockchain security solutions, including zero-knowledge proof architecture, access control design, establishment of robust public key infrastructures, and the implementation of security logging and monitoring tools to track activities effectively.
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN 
  -  Acquire proficiency in efficiently assessing and categorizing risks through comprehensive threat modeling exercises.
  -  Learn to conduct thorough audits of smart contracts and blockchain applications using diverse tools, formal verification methods, and established frameworks.
  -  Learn to design secure blockchain architectures by implementing cutting-edge techniques, including zero-knowledge proofs, access controls, PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), and robust security logging.
  -  Learn  to take appropriate actions when encountering cryptocurrency-related internet scams, ensuring a safer digital environment.
  WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?
  This book is tailored for blockchain developers, architects, security experts, software professionals, and researchers/cryptographers seeking in-depth knowledge of blockchain security. Whether you're building blockchain systems, strengthening security expertise, integrating blockchain into software, or delving into advanced research, this book equips you with essential skills and insights.
  TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  1. Blockchain Security Overview
  2. Blockchain Security Variations
  3. Attack Vectors Management on Blockchain
  4. Blockchain Application Exploitation
  5. Blockchain Application Audit
  6. Blockchain Security Solution    
  Index

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  ISO 22301: 2019 - An...

  Alan Calder

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  In an increasingly volatile world, exemplified by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, organisations are looking at business continuity with a fresh perspective. While most organisations believe they are prepared for disruption, COVID-19 has proved otherwise. The need for business continuity has never been clearer.
  If you were hit by a cyber attack and lost the use of your IT systems, would you be able to carry on? If your business premises were forced to close, what would you do? If you were affected by unexpected staff absence, how could you reassure your customers that you can still offer them the service they expect?
  Being unprepared can lead to financial and reputational damage, which could prove disastrous. You could fail to keep up with customer demand or lose important business, or your customers could go elsewhere. Without a proper risk assessment strategy, your company directors could even face prosecution if a major incident occurs and results in loss or injury.
  An introduction to ISO 22301
  To minimise the impact of a disaster on your business, and to continue to provide essential services to your customers, you need to put in place a BCMS (business continuity management system). This pocket guide will help you understand the basics of business continuity and ISO 22301:2019, the international standard that describes the specification for a BCMS.
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  - What business continuity is;
  - Key terms and definitions;
  - A brief history of business continuity management;
  - The BCMS;
  - ISO 22301 BCMS requirements; and
  - CertificationISO 22301:2019 - An introduction to a business continuity management system (BCMS) provides an easy-to-read and straightforward introduction to a BCMS that business continuity managers, compliance managers, C-suites and disaster recovery planners – or any organisation implementing, or considering implementing, an ISO 22301 BCMS – will find valuable.

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  Easy Guide to Attachment...

  Vanessa Alvarez

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  If you're like many adults today, you've experienced some kind of loss of a loved one. Whether it was a parent, spouse, sibling, friend, or child, losing someone close hurts. 
  People who develop attachment disorders have trouble regulating emotions and forming healthy relationships. They think negatively about themselves and find it hard to trust others. They often withdraw from social situations because they fear rejection. Some develop fears of intimacy and relationships. Others struggle with anger management issues. Still, others have difficulties controlling impulses and acting responsibly. 
  But, an attachment disorder doesn't mean you'll never recover. Many people overcome these challenges through therapy and support groups. 
  The book describes how attachment disorders affect adults, what they look like, and how to recognize them. It discusses the different types of attachment disorders, such as secure, avoidant, ambivalent/resistant, disorganized, and unresolved, and describes how they are diagnosed and treated. The authors discuss common comorbidities associated with ADs, including anxiety disorder, mood disorder, substance use disorder, eating disorders, personality disorders, and trauma exposure. 
  The Vanessa Alvarez explains why people develop these disorders, and he provides advice on how to help someone who suffers from one. She also includes suggestions for parents, teachers, and therapists.

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  Virtually Human - The...

  Ph.D. Martine Rothblatt

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  Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness-simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology-becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of Martine's wife that can engage in conversation, answer questions, and even have spontaneous thoughts that are derived from multimedia data in a Mindfile created by the real Bina. If you're active on Twitter or Facebook, share photos through Instagram, or blogging regularly, you're already on your way to creating a Mindfile-a digital database of your thoughts, memories, feelings, and opinions that is essentially a back-up copy of your mind. Soon, this Mindfile can be made conscious with special software-Mindware-that mimics the way human brains organize information, create emotions and achieve self-awareness. This may sound like science-fiction, but the nascent technology already exists. Thousands of software engineers across the globe are working to create cyberconsciousness based on human consciousness and the Obama administration recently announced plans to invest in a decade-long Brain Activity Map project. Virtually Human is the only audiobook to examine the ethical issues relating to cyberconsciousness and Rothblatt, with a Ph.D. in medical ethics, is uniquely qualified to lead the dialogue.

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  Earth's Deep History - How It...

  Martin J. S. Rudwick

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  “Tells the story . . . of how ‘natural philosophers’ developed the ideas of geology accepted today . . . Fascinating.” —San Francisco Book Review 
   
  Earth has been witness to dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for it collected and interpreted? In this sweeping and accessible book, Martin J. S. Rudwick, the premier historian of the Earth sciences, tells the gripping human story of the gradual realization that the Earth’s history has not only been long but also astonishingly eventful. 
   
  Rudwick begins in the seventeenth century with Archbishop James Ussher, who famously dated the creation of the cosmos to 4004 BC. His narrative later turns to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when geological evidence was used—and is still being used—to reconstruct a history of the Earth that is as varied and unpredictable as human history. 
   
   itself. Along the way, Rudwick rejects the popular view of this story as a conflict between science and religion and shows how the modern scientific account of the Earth’s deep history retains strong roots in Judeo-Christian ideas.  
   
  Extensively illustrated, Earth’s Deep History is an engaging and impressive capstone to Rudwick’s distinguished career.  
   
  “Deftly explains how ideas of natural history were embedded in cultural history.” —Nature 
   
  “An engaging read for nonscientists and specialists alike.” —Library Journal 
   
  “Wonderfully erudite and absorbing.” —Times Literary Supplement 
   
  “Fascinating, well written, and novel . . . Essential.” —Choice 
   
  “Thrilling.” —London Review of Books

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