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InfoSec Reviews brings you the latest independent reviews and opinion on a range of information security resources; books, magazines, websites, podcasts, blogs and even television shows are reviewed by our team of experts. We work closely with publishers and media teams in all aspects of the business to ensure you get the most up-to-date information and that the reviews you are reading are written by qualified individuals whom we have selected from our network of specialists.
We have now published our InfoSec Review Book Awards magazine for 2011 in preparation for its launch in print at Infosecurity Europe in Earls Court, London (24 – 26 April). The magazine covers all the best books of 2011, as voted by our readers, as well as loads of articles from authors and publishers about writing in our field. This magazine is available in digital form here:
Open publication – Free publishing – More book reviews
We hope the winners of this years awards are happy with their selection and they have all of you, the information security book buying public, to thank for this.
It is with much excitement that we welcome Mich Kabay’s blog to InfoSec Reviews; from now on to be known as ‘Perception’.
Mich has been the author of the Security Strategies newsletter at Network World for the last 11 years, posting in excess of 1200 articles, so we are honoured to offer him his new home here on our website. Mich’s first blog post for us, Credo, is already published for you to read, being a simple introduction to what’s to come over the following months. Just click the Perception link on top menu or on the main menu on the right side of this page.
Perception will provide us with Mich’s unique viewpoint and commentary on the world of Information Security. As he says, the blog is aimed at everyone in the security industry; from CIOs, to programmers, from consultants to students – all are welcome to drink down his vast experience.
InfoSec Reviews is delighted to welcome Mich to our site and we encourage you to comment as much as you can on Mich’s work, as this is what will make the column its most valuable. And all that remains to be said is… over to you Mich…..
M. E. Kabay, PhD, CISSP-ISSMP
Professor of Information Assurance & Statistics,
School of Business and Management, Norwich University
Mich Kabay began programming computers in assembly language in 1965. In 1976, he received his PhD from Dartmouth College in applied statistics and invertebrate zoology and taught biology, statistics, and programming as a university professor in Canada and overseas. In 1979, he joined a compiler team for a new 4GL and RDBMS in the US, then joined Hewlett-Packard Canada in 1980 as an operating systems and database performance specialist, winning the Systems Engineer of the Year Award in 1982. He ran his own consulting firm from 1986 to 1998, specializing in operations management, facilities security, and corporate security policy development and implementation. He served as Director of Education for the National Computer Security Association from 1990 to 1999, and then worked with AtomicTangerine where he supported the International Institute for Information Integrity (I-4). He has been a speaker at the United States War College, the Pentagon, NATO HQ, and at NATO Counterintelligence training in Germany. He earned his CISSP designation in 1997.
He was inducted into the ISSA Hall of Fame in December 2004 and earned his ISSMP designation from (ISC)2 in November 2005. He joined Norwich University in 2001, served as Program Director of the Master’s Program in Information Assurance from 2002 to 2009, and was the CTO of the School of Graduate Studies in from 2005 to 2009.
Since 1986, he has published over 1300 articles in operations management and security, written a college textbook on enterprise security (McGraw-Hill, 1996), and served as Technical Editor of the 4th (2002) 5th (2009) and 6th (due 2013) editions of the Computer Security Handbook (Wiley).
His Web site is http://www.mekabay.com
Announcing Our New Blog Feature
We’re really pleased that our blog is starting to take off and your feedback on this and our Perception resources are fantastic. Please keep reading and commenting and if you are interested in writing for us on any subject close to your heart, we’d love to hear from you.
Tony
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