Category: About The Book

About The Book

Dec 01

Can You Please Rate or Review 7 Deadliest UC Attacks On O’Reilly’s Site?

Oreilly-book-logoIf you have read "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks" and found the book helpful, could you please take a moment to rate and/or review the book on O'Reilly's website?  Even if you just enter the number of stars and say something very basic it would be helpful.  All you need to do is go to this page:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781597495479.do

and click on the "Write Review" link.

In preparation for today's Cyber Monday sale, I looked at the page and noticed that ever since O'Reilly started selling the book as an ebook there have not been any reviews there.  There are a few reviews on Goodreads and several very nice reviews over on Amazon.com, but none yet on O'Reilly's site.

These kind of ratings and reviews do help people decide whether to purchase a book - and they are helpful to me as an author, too, to understand what people did (or did not) find useful and helpful.

Thank you!

Dec 01

Cyber Monday: 50% Off Ebook of “Migrating Applications to IPv6″

Oreilly cyber monday 2014

Today you have a great opportunity to buy “Migrating Applications to IPv6” and hundreds of other ebooks and videos from O’Reilly and associated publishers at a discount of 50% off or more. Simply go to:

http://oreil.ly/Cyber-Monday

and start shopping! Or you can go directly to the book’s page at O’Reilly at:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020974.do

As I’ve mentioned in the past, buying direct from O’Reilly offers multiple excellent benefits, including:

  • DRM-free – no stupidity with license restrictions.
  • Free lifetime access
  • Multiple formats (ex. ePUB, PDF, Kindle, etc.)
  • Free updates
  • Sync with Dropbox and other similar services

… and more!  All you do is enter “CYBERDY” as the promotion code when checking out.  The deal expires on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 05:00 US Pacific Time.

While you are there you can purchase any of O’Reilly’s other IPv6 books for the same discount. Do note that this sale is for ebooks and not for the print versions of the books.

IPv6 deployment is accelerating – make sure that your applications and networks are ready for the IPv6 Internet!

P.S. My “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks” book is also on sale as an ebook at O’Reilly’s site… if you are interested in voice-over-IP (VoIP) security, please do check that book out, too.

May 06

Celebrate “Day Against DRM” With 50% Off All O’Reilly Ebooks

day-against-drm-2014.jpgIn celebration of the “Day Against DRM“, O’Reilly is running a sale of 50% off of all their ebooks and videos. All you have to do is go to their site and shopfor ebooks … that’s it!

As I note on my page about buying the book, I’m a big fan of buying directly from O’Reilly because the ebooks are DRM-free andyou get free updates and more.

DRM only hurts us as readers … and as an author I don’t want my readers locked into specific platforms. I’d like readers to be able to read my books on whatever device they want whenever they want.

As the site says, DRM is TOXIC to our freedom!

So… if you have been thinking about buying some O’Reilly ebooks – mine or anyone else’s – please buy them today and help spread the word that we as readers want our ebooks without DRM!

Thanks!

P.S. My “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications (UC) Attacks” book is also on sale today in ebook form through O’Reilly after O’Reilly started carrying the ebook version of 7 Deadliest UC Attacks last year.

P.P.S. Please note the 50%-off sale ends on May 7, 2014, at 5:00am US Pacific time.

Dec 02

Cyber Monday Deal: 50% Off Ebook of Seven Deadliest UC Attacks

oreilly.com Cyber Monday SaleWould you like to purchase the ebook of "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks" for 50% off? or maybe even 60% off? As I mentioned before, the folks at O'Reilly are now selling the ebook of 7 Deadliest UC Attacks and they have a promotion going on today:

Save 50% on all ebooks and videos at oreilly.com - and save 60% on all orders over $100.

Here's a great chance to help learn more about how to secure Unified Communications / VoIP systems - or to buy this book for someone you think would like to learn more on the subject.

The awesome aspects about ordering ebooks directly from O'Reilly include:

  • DRM-free - you can read the ebook on as many different devices as you want... and you don't have to mess around with silly licensing systems.
  • Multiple formats - you can download the book in ePub, Kindle, PDF.
  • Free lifetime access - you don't have a limit on when you can download the book and you can always go back in and get it.
  • Free updates - whenever there are updates to a book you get a notification and can easily download the update.

All around it's just a great system for working with ebooks... and yes, I'm an author for them so you might expect me to say this, but I'm also a consumer who purchases ebooks and I like their system better than any of the other ones out there that I've tried.

I'll note on the "Free updates" part - I don't yet have any current plans to update "Seven Deadliest UC Attacks"  (unlike my "Migrating Applications to IPv6" book that will see an update in 2014) but if I do work on an update at some future point, ebook purchasers through O'Reilly would be the ones to easily get an update (versus print or ebook through other systems).  And you will get updates for any other ebooks you purchase.

It's a great deal - and I'd encourage you to stock up on ebooks from O'Reilly's site today!

P.S. To comply with full disclosure requirements: the links in this post are affiliate links - I will make a tiny amount of money if you purchase any ebooks after following these links... but that's not why I'm writing this post.

Dec 02

Cyber Monday: 50% (or More!) Off “Migrating Apps to IPv6″


oreilly.com Cyber Monday SaleWant to buy “Migrating Applications to IPv6” at a discount of 50% or more?  Today being “Cyber Monday” the team at O’Reilly are offering an outstanding deal:

Save 50% on all ebooks and videos at oreilly.com – and save over 60% if you purchase over $100.

As I’ve mentioned in the past, buying direct from O’Reilly offers multiple excellent benefits, including:

  • DRM-free – no stupidity with license restrictions.
  • Free lifetime access
  • Multiple formats (ex. ePUB, PDF, Kindle, etc.)
  • Free updates
  • Sync with Dropbox

… and more!  All you do is enter “CYBER3″ as the promotion code when checking out.  The deal expires on Tuesday, December 3, at 11:00 US Pacific Time.

Note that this code is good for ALL of O’Reilly’s ebooks – so it’s a great day to stock up on new reading material!     I love the way O’Reilly notifies you when you have updates to download… and since I’m planning an update to this book in 2014 by buying today you’ll get that update when it’s available.

Please do check it out!

P.S. To comply with full disclosure requirements: the links in this post are affiliate links – I will make a tiny amount of money if you purchase any ebooks after following these links… but that’s not why I’m writing this post.

P.P.S. My “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications (UC) Attacks” book is also on sale today in ebook form through O’Reilly after O’Reilly started carrying the ebook version of 7 Deadliest UC Attacks earlier this year.

Jun 18

What IPv6 Migration Questions Would You Like To Know From App Developers?

Question markWhat questions would you like to ask of developers who have successfully migrated their applications to IPv6? What tips and tricks would you like to learn?

I am planning to update “Migrating Applications to IPv6” this summer to include pointers to some of the newer RFCs and transition tutorials and in doing the update I would like to add in mini-“case studies” of applications that have already made the transition to IPv6. Some of the questions I’m thinking of asking developers include:

  • How easy or difficult was the migration to IPv6 for your application?
  • What was the most challenging aspect of the migration?
  • Were there any specific tools or libraries that proved to be the most helpful?
  • Did you encounter any surprises in terms of IP address dependency? i.e. places in your code where you didn’t realize you depended upon an IP address?
  • Did you have to make any significant changes to the way you store information? i.e. configuration files, databases, etc.
  • How did you test your application in an IPv6 environment?
  • Does your app work in both an IPv6-only and dual-stack environment?
  • Is there anything you wish you’d known before you started the move to IPv6?

Do you have other questions you would like me to ask? If so, please either leave a message for me here on the site or on one of the social networks where I post this message – or send me an email.

I would also be interested to hear which of these questions above are the most important to you. What are your top 2 or 3 concerns about migrating your app to IPv6?

Also, if you are an application developer who has already ported your application to IPv6 and would be interested in being a case study in the updated book, please contact me as I am looking to get started on these updates soon.

On that note, I’m also thinking about perhaps creating some interviews in video and audio form related to these questions above… so if you would be interested in some multimedia exposure for your application please let me know that, too. (Thanks!)

May 09

Ebook for "7 Deadliest UC Attacks" Now Available DRM-Free From O’Reilly Books

No-drmI was extremely pleased to recently learn that the ebook of "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks" is now available DRM-free through a deal between Syngress/Elsvier and O'Reilly. As I noted in a recent podcast about DRM-free books, this allows you as the reader much more flexibility and freedom in being able to read the ebook on the platform and device of your choosing.

You can now purchase 7 Deadliest UC Attacks in either Epub of PDF formats directly from O'Reilly.  

The great part about ordering DRM-free ebooks from O'Reilly is that you can easily get back to your ebooks and download them in multiple formats.  They also alert you to updates if there are any.

Kudos to the folks at Elsevier and Syngress for making all of these ebooks available DRM-free!

Oct 19

“Migrating Apps To IPv6” Author And Editor Get To Meet Face-To-Face

A curious aspect of writing a book is that you never actually need to meet the people with whom you are working at a publisher. Everything can be done online with maybe an occasional phone call thrown in. Editors, production staff, publicists… all the interaction happens primarily through email.

It’s nice, though, when you do get a chance to put a face with a name. As shown below, I got a chance to catch up with Mike Loukides, the editor at O’Reilly who first approached me about the “Migrating Applications to IPv6” book project and who worked with me to make it happen:

York loukides

This was at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference back in the beginning of the year. (Excellent conferences, by the way!) I just stumbled upon the photo and thought I should post it. I still haven’t met the other editors and staff who helped me with the book, but that is indeed the way it works.

Sep 20

Updated List of IPv6 Resources for Application Developers

Recently I noticed that my list of IPv6 resources for application developers had not been updated since the second version of Migrating Applications to IPv6 was published in June 2012.  I’ve now gone ahead and updated the list to have all the links that I added to the second release of the book.

Now, granted, some of the links may not make much sense without the context of what is in the book, but they are all there so that you can easily visit them.  (And hey, if you want the context, why not buy the book? 😉

If you have suggestions for additional resources I should add, please do contact me as I’m always open to considering new content to add to the book.  From the beginning this has always been conceived as a collection of guidance for application developers looking to move their applications over to IPv6, so please do pass along any thoughts you think I should consider adding to the book. (Thanks!)

Sep 07

New Mailing List for “Migrating Apps to IPv6” Updates

Would you like to be notified when updates are made to “Migrating Applications to IPv6“?  If so, there’s a nifty little sign-up box over in the right sidebar that will add you to an email distribution list that I will use ONLY to alert you to news about the book.  Info about updates will also be posted here to the book’s blog, of course, and will also appear on the Google+ page and in my normal Twitter stream. But I realized recently that some readers might want to receive specific messages when updates are available.  If you purchase the ebook directly from O’Reilly, you’ll get notified through their notification system, but if you purchase through another retailer – or would just like to receive an extra update, please feel free to subscribe.  I promise I won’t spam you or do anything else with your email address outside of alert you to the new updates.

Thanks for your interest in the book!