Bøger af Bruce Michelson

Many of the security counter measures being leveraged by businesses today simply address the past (trust then verify). These tools advise and protect when issues are detected, then the problems can be addressed. There is often a time lag from identification, addressing the issues, and resolving the actual issues. To understand the overall state of security in an organization there are a considerable number of tools required. For the most part, each of these tools have an application agent to be deployed. The result is often a "one of everything" approach.Zero Trust is a framework not a solution. Zero Trust is a part of an ongoing continuous process improvement plan, and should evolve with the times to deliver true security to an organization.The common thread is the ability to identify known vectors of end user satisfaction or organizational risk to address issues. The comment about "known" vectors is the key - security counter measures can only respond to what is known and understood at a particular moment in time. Risk is a very straightforward concept. Risk is either real or not. Closed Loop Lifecycle Planning© in its research called The Risk Cycle© concluded that risk does not have a "gray" area - something is either a risk or not. Our book has challenged the assumption that there is such a thing as "reasonable risk". The theory of reasonable risk is that businesses and organizations make a conscious decision that a risk is reasonable to take, and then accepts the exposure. Zero Trust would argue that the approach itself is not reasonable.

There were many trends in motion pre-pandemic. During the pandemic many of those trends such as changing demographics, remote work, cloud computing, and collaboration were accelerated. We are entering a post-pandemic era where these changes are the new mainstream. IT must embrace, adapt, and change. Change is never simple nor is it easy - our IT legacy represents perhaps our biggest challenge and inhibitor. This book introduces new methodologies and practices for IT - Priority Based Budget and Behavior Driven IT. Priority Based Budget focuses an operational budget, a tactical budget, and a strategic budget. Behavior Driven IT is defined as the identification of meaningful trends in IT and the overall industry, then applying technologies to meet the end user expectations to build the IT infrastructure surrounding the end user. Combined, these new approaches will assist IT to continue its leadership role.

Trained as a printer when still a boy, and thrilled throughout his life by the automation of printing and the headlong expansion of American publishing, Mark Twain wrote about the consequences of this revolution for culture and for personal identity. Printer's Devil is the first book to explore these themes in some of Mark Twain's best-known literary works, and in his most daring speculations-on American society, the modern condition, and the nature of the self. Playfully and anxiously, Mark Twain often thought about typeset words and published images as powerful forces-for political and moral change, personal riches and ruin, and epistemological turmoil. In his later years, Mark Twain wrote about the printing press as a center of metaphysical power, a force that could alter the fabric of reality. Studying these themes in Mark Twain's writings, Bruce Michelson also provides a fascinating overview of technological changes that transformed the American printing and publishing industries during Twain's lifetime, changes that opened new possibilities for content, for speed of production, for the size and diversity of a potential audience, and for international fame. The story of Mark Twain's life and art, amid this media revolution, is a story with powerful implications for our own time, as we ride another wave of radical change: for printed texts, authors, truth, and consciousness.

This book offers a fresh examination of literary wit as a distinct variety of discourse - fundamentally different from wit, humour and laughter in nonliterary contexts. The author explores how wit can transform fiction, plays and poetry, providing ""a fire that keeps our imaginative literature hot"".

In this work, the author re-examines Mark Twain as a person, a text and a myth. He argues that some of his best works are shaped by a drive for liberation from every social, psychological and artistic limit and describes him as a reflexive, paradoxical, rule shattering comic genius.