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Cloud native security isn''t a game for individual players. It requires team collaboration with a platform that can help cloud security engineers, developers, and operations people do their best work. That''s what the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) delivers. With this practical guide, you''ll learn how CNAPPs can help you consolidate security through DevSecOps across cloud native technologies, practices, and application lifecycles.

Through real-life attack scenarios, authors Russ Miles, Steve Giguere, and Taylor Smith help you explore how CNAPP not only mitigates multidimensional threats, but also reduces complexity and helps your team stay one step ahead of attackers. CNAPP provides a holistic approach to your cloud native development across identities, workloads, networks, and infrastructure.

With this book, you will:

Examine threats to different parts of the cloud native stack, including pipelines, supply chains, infrastructure, workloads, and applicationsLearn what CNAPP is and how it enables the context-sharing and collaboration necessary to secure your applications from development to runtimeAssess your own attack surface from a code and runtime standpointIdentify blind spots in your existing cloud native security coverageLeverage CNAPP to achieve a holistic, collaborative security environment

Cloud native security isn''t a game for individual players. It requires team collaboration with a platform that can help cloud security engineers, developers, and operations people do their best work. That''s what the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) delivers. With this practical guide, you''ll learn how CNAPPs can help you consolidate security through DevSecOps across cloud native technologies, practices, and application lifecycles.

Through real-life attack scenarios, authors Russ Miles, Steve Giguere, and Taylor Smith help you explore how CNAPP not only mitigates multidimensional threats, but also reduces complexity and helps your team stay one step ahead of attackers. CNAPP provides a holistic approach to your cloud native development across identities, workloads, networks, and infrastructure.

With this book, you will:

Examine threats to different parts of the cloud native stack, including pipelines, supply chains, infrastructure, workloads, and applicationsLearn what CNAPP is and how it enables the context-sharing and collaboration necessary to secure your applications from development to runtimeAssess your own attack surface from a code and runtime standpointIdentify blind spots in your existing cloud native security coverageLeverage CNAPP to achieve a holistic, collaborative security environment

Cloud native security isn't a game for individual players. It requires team collaboration with a platform that can help cloud security engineers, developers, and operations people do their best work. That's what the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) delivers. With this practical guide, you'll learn how CNAPPs can help you consolidate security through DevSecOps across cloud native technologies, practices, and application lifecycles.Through real-life attack scenarios, authors Russ Miles, Steve Giguere, and Taylor Smith help you explore how CNAPP not only mitigates multidimensional threats, but also reduces complexity and helps your team stay one step ahead of attackers. CNAPP provides a holistic approach to your cloud native development across identities, workloads, networks, and infrastructure.With this book, you will:Examine threats to different parts of the cloud native stack, including pipelines, supply chains, infrastructure, workloads, and applicationsLearn what CNAPP is and how it enables the context-sharing and collaboration necessary to secure your applications from development to runtimeAssess your own attack surface from a code and runtime standpointIdentify blind spots in your existing cloud native security coverageLeverage CNAPP to achieve a holistic, collaborative security environment

Security specialist Hannah Nicks has one goal: earn enough money to regain custody of her son. The fastest way to accomplish that is to take on a covert, privately funded mission in the Middle East. But when the mission ends badly, she realizes the price of her risks: the loss of a young ally, the reward money and her reputation. Two years later Hannah is back in Los Angeles.When a chance encounter leads to the man who ruined her mission, Hannah plans to even the score. But she doesn't expect to unravel a tangled web of lies and treachery that could drag America to its knees. Her only ally is a cop who has burned a few too many bridges himself and understands that the odds are always better when you have nothing left to lose.

Between jobs and feeling financially strapped, gun-for-hire Hannah Nicks takes on an assignment that promises easy money and an all-expenses-paid vacation on the Mexican Riviera. Hired by her sister's friend, a gallery owner, Hannah sets out to transport a minor artist's painting to its buyer in Puerto Vallarta. But when Hannah arrives at the delivery point, she finds the tail end of a massacre and is nearly killed herself. She hides the painting, fearing it is not a meal ticket but a death warrant, and flees back to the States. But it only gets worse for her in L.A.The gallery owner has been killed, and Hannah is named as the murder suspect. In order to prove her innocence, she must hunt down the person who framed her…and uncover the secret of a deadly work of art.

On a cold winter night in a small Minnesota town in 1979, someone comes looking for Grace Meade. She is killed and her house is set ablaze. Incredibly, the prime suspect is her own daughter, Jillian.Rescued from the burning house, Jillian Meade is hospitalized, unable–or unwilling–to speak. After an attempt to take her own life, Jillian's doctor gives her a blank journal to encourage her to write about her mother's death.Unaware of what has happened, FBI Special Agent Alex Cruz comes to Havenwood, Minnesota, to interview Jillian. Two elderly women were found murdered in their homes in England, and Jillian, it seems, was the last person to see both women alive. When he learns that Jillian's own mother met a similar fate, he realizes that there is far more going on than anyone ever imagined.When Jillian suddenly disappears, Cruz has only her journal to decipher the story of Grace and Jillian Meade. A story of a wartime heist of Nazi gold, of unforgivable betrayals and ruthless actions. A deadly secret from the past, Cruz learns, has surfaced. And if he doesn't find Jillian soon, she, too, may be made to pay the ultimate price.

On a cobbled street in old Vienna, an accident leaves David Tardiff a shadow of his brilliant self and his young daughter, Lindsay, severely injured.On a deserted highway in New Mexico, five of the world's leading scientists disappear in a burst of flames.One woman–David's wife, CIA officer Mariah Bolt–is the link between both tragedies.Confronted by the devastating destruction of her family and too many unanswered questions, she's determined to prove that neither was an accident. As she probes deeper into what really happened in Vienna, she realizes that she can trust no one–not the government, not her mentor, not even her husband.Because now Mariah is the target.

In Hong Kong a beautiful woman is pushed off a balcony to her death. In London a young American is gunned down outside the U.S. embassy. In Washington a senior CIA official vanishes into thin air. Random, unrelated events? Or pieces of the same puzzle?These events are no accidents, it seems, when it is discovered that the woman in Hong Kong had a CIA lover. That the London murder was a case of mistaken identity, and that the intended target was the wife of CIA senior deputy Drum MacNeil, who has since gone missing.To find MacNeil, investigators are taking a close look at his past actions, public and private. And at his restless wife, Carrie, who is doing her best to play the part of the innocent victim, even though it's increasingly clear that Drum's life has been a carefully constructed lie.Carrie MacNeil is about to learn firsthand about the evil of treachery. And in this business there are no fair-trade rules. It's always a liar's market.

Senior CIA analyst Mariah Bolt remembers her late father as the man who abandoned his family to run off to Europe with another woman. Ben Bolt's fans remember him somewhat differently, and revere him as a literary genius.But like it or not, Mariah has become the reluctant guardian of his legacy–never suspecting she has also inherited a ticking time bomb.As she is about to depart on a much-needed vacation with her teenage daughter, Mariah is called in on an urgent assignment–to lure a man into betraying his country. There's only one hitch–to get to this man she has to cross paths with her father's old lover. Suddenly the past is back with a vengeance.One old friend will betray her and another will be murdered, as Mariah discovers how little she really knows about her father's life–and his death. And when her fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing, Mariah will be reminded once more that there are no limits in the terrifying game of international espionage.

Teach your machine to think for itself!Key FeaturesDelve into supervised learning and grasp how a machine learns from dataImplement popular machine learning algorithms from scratchExplore some of the most popular scientific and mathematical libraries in the Python languageBook DescriptionSupervised machine learning is used in a wide range of sectors, such as finance, online advertising, and analytics, to train systems to make pricing predictions, campaign adjustments, customer recommendations, and much more by learning from the data that is used to train it and making decisions on its own. This makes it crucial to know how a machine 'learns' under the hood.This book will guide you through the implementation and nuances of many popular supervised machine learning algorithms, and help you understand how they work. You’ll embark on this journey with a quick overview of supervised learning and see how it differs from unsupervised learning. You’ll then explore parametric models, such as linear and logistic regression, non-parametric methods, such as decision trees, and a variety of clustering techniques that facilitate decision-making and predictions. As you advance, you'll work hands-on with recommender systems, which are widely used by online companies to increase user interaction and enrich shopping potential. Finally, you’ll wrap up with a brief foray into neural networks and transfer learning.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with hands-on techniques and will have gained the practical know-how you need to quickly and effectively apply algorithms to solve new problems.What you will learnCrack how a machine learns a concept and generalizes its understanding of new dataUncover the fundamental differences between parametric and non-parametric modelsImplement and grok several well-known supervised learning algorithms from scratchWork with models in domains such as ecommerce and marketingGet to grips with algorithms such as regression, decision trees, and clusteringBuild your own models capable of making predictionsDelve into the most popular approaches in deep learning such as transfer learning and neural networksWho this book is forThis book is for anyone who wants to get started with supervised learning. Intermediate knowledge of Python programming along with fundamental knowledge of supervised learning is expected.

For many Americans, debt has become overwhelming—and in some cases unmanageable. This book is a primer to understanding how debt works, why we borrow and what to do when debt gets beyond our reach. Debt has become woven into the fabric of most Americans’ lives. We take out mortgages to buy our houses, borrow to pay for college, use it to own or lease our cars, and put purchases big and small on credit cards.  From learning the ins and outs of the most common kinds of debt to understanding how interest rates and credit scores work, this book will give readers the information they need to maintain a healthy relationship with debt. And if debt gets out of control, this book offers concrete steps readers can take to get—and stay—out of debt. Plus: Easy-to-use worksheets to more easily manage spending and eliminate debt with money saving tips for everyone.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject History - America, grade: A, Brigham Young University, course: History 300: Advanced History Writing, language: English, abstract: Step back in time to the dawn of the 20th century and witness the rise of America as a global power through the ambitious foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt. This fascinating exploration delves into Roosevelt's strategic vision for the Far East and Pacific, a region he saw as vital to American prosperity and security. Discover how Roosevelt, an avowed expansionist, deftly navigated complex international relations with China, Japan, and Russia, all while grappling with the challenges of American imperialism in the Philippines and other Pacific territories. Uncover the intricate web of diplomacy, military maneuvering, and economic interests that defined Roosevelt's approach, from the Open Door Policy in China to the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War and the subsequent Treaty of Portsmouth, earning him a Nobel Peace Prize. Explore the concept of "e;the white man's burden"e; and its influence on Roosevelt's policies in the Philippines. Examine the complexities of Sino-American relations, including the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Boxer Rebellion, and Roosevelt's attempts to balance American interests with principles of justice and fairness. Furthermore, investigate the strategic considerations behind the voyage of the Great White Fleet and the signing of the Root-Takahira Agreement, as Roosevelt sought to maintain stability in the Pacific amid rising Japanese power and shifting European alliances. Through insightful analysis, this book reveals how Theodore Roosevelt's Far Eastern and Pacific policies shaped America's role in the world and left a lasting legacy on international relations, solidifying America's presence on the world stage and ensuring its commercial and strategic interests were protected in an era of rapid global change, laying the groundwork for future American foreign policy in the region. This is essential reading for anyone interested in American history, foreign policy, imperialism, and the dynamics of power in the early 20th century, offering a nuanced understanding of a pivotal period in global affairs and the enduring impact of one of America's most influential presidents on the international landscape, showing how his vision shaped the modern world order.

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject History of Europe - Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, Brigham Young University, language: English, abstract: The Golden Horde, which included much of modern-day Kazakhstan and the surrounding areas, has received the most detailed study of the plague in Asia, mostly because it was the point from which the Black Death was brought to Europe by Italian Merchants. It was struck by the plague in its major cities, starting with Khorazm in 1345 and Saray in1346. During this time the Golden Horde was ending a long war with the Il-Khanate to the south, and was eventually divided by civil war between the Blue Horde and the Princes of the Right Hand. The latter eventually lost the civil war, probably due to the fact that it had a more urbanized population, and thus was more susceptible to the plague. Yet, despite their victory, the Blue Horde was never able to fully revive the kingdom's former prosperity and the era of large cities and long distance trade on the western steppe came to an end.

Master the game of Backgammon (a Guide for Intermediate Players).Inside Play Backgammon and Win, you'll . . .Learn the strategic foundations for backgammon.Find out how to play the beginning, middle, and end game.Understand how the flow of the game works at the intermediate level.Uncover strategies for more winsLearn tactics and defensive play.See the math behind decision-making.Find out the mistakes to avoid.Learn about cube theory foundations.See detailed examples throughout the book.Improve at backgammon in a big way. Author Taylor Smith is a serious card and board game enthusiast who is eager to share his knowledge with you about backgammon, one of the most popular games ever. It's the complete guide and everything you need to know about Backgammon strategy for intermediate-level players.Get your copy of How to Play Backgammon and Win today. And then get started on a fun adventure for the rest of your life!

Learn How to Play the Top 50 Dart Variations.If you've ever wanted to get deeper into the game of darts, this is the book for you! Maybe you've played casually at the bar or pub, but never really understood the different games.Inside this dart games variations book, you'll…Learn the basics of the top 50 dart games.Find out how to play cricket, countdown variations, party games, and more.Uncover the rules and scoring for various games in an easy-to-understand way.Learn how to use winning strategies.Understand the lingo from A to Z.And so much more! Author Taylor Smith is a serious darts enthusiast who is eager to share his knowledge with you about one of the most popular social games around the world. It's the complete guide and everything you need to know about getting started with playing darts. Get your copy of Top 50 Dart Game Variations. And then get started on a fun adventure for the rest of your life!