Ken Morrison is at work on a new book, tentatively titled “Safer Online”. The intended audience is small businesses and their owners, and families, both communities underserved by the multi-billion dollar main-stream IT security business.
This book is not intended to make the reader an IT security expert (there are already plenty of these books), but rather to help the reader to be Safer Online by learning a set of simple, basic concepts, and by implementing a set of clear changes that will reduce on-line risk. In this way the small business owner can focus on his or her business, and the business and family will be safer during their on-line activities.
The wired, connected world is becoming more complicated and attacks more sophisticated. Your business or home is now a complex wired and wireless network, with computers, mobile phones, thermostats, music systems, cameras, lights, POS terminals, and other devices all sharing your same internal network. The Bad Guys have moved from joyriding the Internet to organized crime intent on theft, and nation-state surveillance.
Our need to be Safer Online now is critical. A Chapter List can be found below. Look for progress updates.
Safer Online — Chapter List
February 2018
Chapter 1
The 12 Commandments of Information Security: The Essentials
Chapter 2
Your Personal Information Security Assessment
Chapter 3
The Password Challenge
Chapter 4
Browser Security
Chapter 5
You Are A Network Administrator
Chapter 6
Keep Your Family Secure
Chapter 7
Security On The Road
Chapter 8
Mobile Device Security
Chapter 9
What About the Cloud?
Chapter 10
Attack Recovery
Chapter 11
The Future
Appendixes
Personal IS Assessment Guide
Geek Glossary
Endnotes
Index