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Two New Amazon.com Reviews of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks

amazonlogo.jpgI’ve been very humbled and pleased to see two new reviews of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks show up on Amazon.com this month. Both are lengthy and both quite positive:

I don’t know Mario Camillen, but I definitely appreciate his taking the time to write about the book and for giving it the high rating he did.

I do know Alan Johnston and in fact recently wrote about his new fiction ebook here on this blog. I’ve known Alan for years through IETF and other SIP circles and will actually be seeing him next week at the SIPNOC event outside of Washington, D.C. Having said all of that, Alan certainly did not have to write the high praise he did… and I certainly do value his comments given that Alan is the author of another VoIP security book and was also heavily involved with the ZRTP protocol.

I greatly appreciate the reviews from both Mario and Alan because reviews definitely do matter … and do influence buying behavior.

To that end, if you have read Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks, would you please consider writing a review on Amazon.com? It would be great if more readers did. (Thanks in advance if you do.)

Why You Need This Book!

What is the deadliest threat to your UC system?

It is 2011 and your communications system is no longer some box screwed onto plywood in some back room with a bunch of phones connected to it. Today your “Unified Communications” system is voice, video, instant messaging, presence, collaboration… and so much more… all running on commodity operating systems and running across your data network and even potentially the public Internet.

How do you secure a system like that?

This is the primary question addressed in the “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks“. UC systems are comprised of so many components and have the potential to be globally distributed.

In such a system, what are the threats? And perhaps more importantly, what are the best strategies for protecting against those threats? And what does the future look like?

In the book you will learn all about topics such as:

  1. UC Ecosystem Attacks
  2. Insecure Endpoints
  3. Eavesdropping and Modification
  4. Control Channel Attacks: Fuzzing, DoS, SPIT and Toll Fraud
  5. SIP Trunking and PSTN Interconnection
  6. Identity, Spoofing and Vishing
  7. Attacks Against Distributed System

The book is also full of links to resources where you can learn more about Unified Communications and VoIP security. This companion web site also includes more resources, a blog with updates and a link over to the companion Facebook page.

Please do explore this site, watch the video below and head on over to your favorite bookseller (such as Amazon) to pick up your copy of the Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks. Make sure your UC systems are as secure as possible today!

Also available as a Kindle eBook!

To learn more, watch this video with author Dan York:

Meeting My Reviewer with the Oddest Review Headline (“Offal”)

I admit that I never get tired of meeting face-to-face with people who have read the Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks and I enjoy particularly meeting with those folks who have taken the time out of their busy lives to write up a review of my book. I do read all the reviews I find about the book, figuring that I can always learn from what others say. So far I’ve been quite pleased and humbled by the positive reviews the book has received to date.

As I mentioned previously, though, I was quite surprised by one review headline entitled “Offal Is Not Awful, and the Seven Deadliest Attacks” and could honestly not even remotely figure out what my book had to do with offal (and it turned out to have nothing to do with it).

When I was down in Miami earlier this year for the ITEXPO conference, I had a chance to meet the reviewer in question, David Byrd of Broadsoft, and naturally I asked if he minded a picture being taken (he didn’t):

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Thanks again, David, for your kind words – and memorable headline!