A practical approach to understanding cybersecurity, security awareness, and protecting your personal information and identity
This was written as a capstone project for my master's degree in cybersecurity.
While the title is a mouthful, the content was written for non-technical users.
Using my years of experience helping and teaching people who aren't IT or technically savvy, the purpose of this book was to make the importance of cybersecurity easy to understand and implement.
Not only does it cover regular computer use, but also being secure online and the importance of physical security.
My daughter's high school computer science teacher was assigned to teach the CS classes because he taught various business application classes and the person who had taught the CS classes had left. After a parent teacher conference, I gave him one of my books to help with his next class.
My daughter reported a week later that he'd read the book and said he wished he'd had it before, and that it'd make teaching certain concepts much easier in the next semester of CS classes.
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What, Where, and How to Prepare
Since experiencing a large earthquake as a young teenager, along with lots of smaller quakes, when we lived in Chile, earthquakes have been in interest of mine. Our time in Chile also had other instances that proved being prepared was worthwhile.
Living along the Wasatch Fault in Utah--California is better known for earthquake risk, but Utah has a very high risk of a massive quake striking--I wanted to learn more about the real hazards and risks of earthquakes were. Along the way I discovered I needed at least a base understanding of what earthquakes are.
After giving several presentations on earthquakes and preparedness, I distilled my research and combined presentations into this book. It has three parts. Part 1 covers the "What" about earthquakes. Like an Earthquakes 101.
Part 2 dives into "Where" the risks and hazards are in the United States. There are the obvious places--California, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii--but then there are several surprises. And the real surprise is that just about every state in the United States has at least some earthquake risk.
Part 3 goes into the preparedness aspect with information and suggestions for being better prepared at home and work.