Do you have an account on Goodreads?  If so, there is a page for Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks with a very kind review from Alan Johnston.  As an author, I'd naturally like to have some more reviews as they do tend to help people understand what people think about the book.

If you found the book helpful, could you please take a moment to review (or at least "star") the book there?

Even if you don't want to post a review right now, if you are on Goodreads and can add the book to a "shelf" that would also be helpful, as others will then see that people are reading the book.

And while you're at it, if you'd like to connect on Goodreads as a fan/friend that would be welcome.

Thanks again for the continued support and for the positive comments I continue to receive about the book.  I'm very pleased that people have found it helpful and that we can continue to have a healthy dialog about communications security issues.

I’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:

• Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks, by Mario Camillen on April 3, 2011
• Required Reading for UC and VoIP Professionals, by Alan Johnston on April 22, 2011

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.)

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):

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

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 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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