Have you read “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks“? If so, would you please consider posting a review on Amazon.com?
There are already a couple of great reviews on Amazon.com, but the fact is that reviews do influence people to buy books and, well, it never hurts to have more reviews!
If you do have a moment to post your thoughts on the book (positive or negative), I’d definitely appreciate it. Thanks!
As I noted over on the VOIPSA blog today, I’ve made available some slides I used for a “SIP, UC and Security” talk last month. Readers of the book will recognize some of the diagrams. 😉
P.S. If you would like me to give a presentation like this to an audience within your organization or at an event you organize, I am always open to considering new places to speak.
As I mentioned previously, I was a live participant in episode 209 of the PaulDotCom Security Weekly last week. The show is now up online for listening:
http://pauldotcom.com/2010/09/pauldotcom—security-weekly—13.html
I come in after the first commercial break for about 20 minutes.
It was fun to do and I thank Paul for the opportunity to come on the show and talk about the book and unified communications security in general.
P.S. I can tell I did the interview late in the evening after a long day… please try NOT to count the number of “and… uh…”‘s that I said at the beginning of the interview. 🙁
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Tomorrow night (Sept 2, 2010) I’ll be appearing live as one of two guests on episode 209 of the PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast . My part will be about a 15-20 minute segment toward the beginning where the crew will interview me about the book, UC Security, etc. I’ll then give the “Tech Segment” of the show where I’ll talk about some of the specific tools that can be used to attack and defend Unified Communications systems. You can then stick around to hear Josh Wright from InGuardians discuss wireless security issues. Should be a good show!
We’ll also be giving away a free copy of “Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks” to one of the live listeners.
You can listen live – and potentially win the free copy of the book – by visiting the web page for the episode:
http://pauldotcom.com/2010/09/episode-209-with-dan-york-josh.html
You can watch the video streamed live from the PaulDotCom studio and also participate in the IRC chat room to ask questions, join in the discussion, etc.
The show will be recorded live on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010, starting at 7:30pm US Eastern time.
I will be remote, so I will not be seen in the live video stream you’ll see on the web page.
The show will also be available for listening later.
Live shows are always “interesting” to do because there’s no editing out mistakes… if you’re stumbling for an answer, well, everyone hears that! You have to be really focused and on your game. I find them fun to do, personally, but then again, I’m warped enough to have always enjoyed press conferences back when those kind of events were actually held. 🙂
Come on over and join us tomorrow night – it should be fun!
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Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Carl Weinschenk about UC Security and the book. The resulting interview is now available on his Unified Communications Edge blog for your listening:
Carl and I had a great discussion about what makes unified communications security different and what businesses need to do – or don’t need to do – to prepare for securing UC systems. We also discussed some of the security advantages of UC and covered a range of related topics.
It was an enjoyable interview to do and I thank Carl for the opportunity to engage in the discussion!
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I’m very pleased to report that an Amazon Kindle version of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks is now available
I’ve had a good number of people ask me about a Kindle version… and it obviously makes a good degree of sense given that it’s a technical book for a technical audience, many of whom may have e-readers.
I don’t own a Kindle, but I do have both an iPad and an iPhone – and the Kindle reader is available for free for both of those – so I am looking forward myself to seeing my book on my iPad as an “e-book”.
What about you all? Do you want to buy the book in paper/treeware form? Or do you want an ebook version?
Full disclosure for the FTC: The links to Amazon.com include my affiliate ID. If you buy the book after following the links, I may be paid a tiny bit of money.
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As I’ve written previously, Google Alerts can be the source of amusing information for authors. Today’s curiosity was a link to the National Library Board of the Singapore Government where Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks is apparently available for readers. In fact, when I clicked on the link and then clicked on the book title, I got a page showing which libraries in Singapore have a copy and which copies are checked out:
Admittedly, this is kind of cool to see! What is of course even more appropriate is that if you count up the number of copies “On Loan”, the count is…. 7! 🙂
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As an author, you naturally pay attention to reviews of your book, and so when Google Alerts delivered me this link, I wasn’t sure what to think:
Peer-to-Peer Blog: Offal Is Not Awful, and the Seven Deadliest Attacks
I mean, what would my book have to do with offal?
It turns out, of course, that there was no connection whatsoever… but the author of the post, David Byrd of Broadsoft, seems to start many of his posts off talking about food! (Other examples here, here and here.) Hey, we all have our own style… 🙂
Thanks, David, for the mention of the book, and for providing a chuckle with your headline. I have to say I would have never come up with the combination. I’ll be curious to see what the headline may be for his follow-up post he mentions for Wednesday…
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I was very pleased to see another great review pop up on Amazon.com, this time from Jason Ostrom, who actually got to see the book before I did! (As seen in this photo from the InfoSec Europe 2010 conference.)
I definitely do appreciate any and all Amazon reviews – people do read those reviews and they do influence sales. If you have read the book, would you mind taking a moment and adding a review at Amazon.com? (Thanks)
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Last week I spoke with Eric Krapf, lead editor of the No Jitter site, about the book and this week he published a very nice article: “Interview: Dan York and the 7 Deadliest UC Attacks” In the article, he recaps the 7 areas of attack I outline in the book, links to articles on No Jitter that support some of the attacks… and also says some very kind things about me.
Thanks, Eric, for your kind words and for writing this article.