Go from novice to ace. Learn how to analyze your data, from writing your first formula to charting your results.
Illustrate trends. Discover the clearest way to present your data using Excel’s new Quick Analysis feature.
Broaden your analysis. Use pivot tables, slicers, and timelines to examine your data from different perspectives.
Import data. Pull data from a variety of sources, including website data feeds and corporate databases.
Work from the Web. Launch and manage your workbooks on the road, using the new Excel Web App.
Share your worksheets. Store Excel files on SkyDrive and collaborate with colleagues on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Master the new data model. Use PowerPivot to work with millions of rows of data.
Make calculations. Review financial data, use math and scientific formulas, and perform statistical analyses.
The world’s most popular spreadsheet program is now more powerful than ever, but it’s also more complex. That’s where this Missing Manual comes in. With crystal-clear explanations and hands-on examples, Excel 2013: The Missing Manual shows you how to master Excel so you can easily track, analyze, and chart your data. You’ll be using new features like PowerPivot and Flash Fill in no time. Download eBook Free »
Learn Project 2013 inside out. Get hands-on instructions for the Standard and Professional editions.
Start with a project management primer. Discover what it takes to handle a project successfully.
Build and refine your plan. Put together your team, schedule, and budget.
Achieve the results you want. Build realistic schedules with Project, and learn how to keep costs under control.
Track your progress. Measure your performance, make course corrections, and manage changes.
Create attractive reports. Communicate clearly to stakeholders and team members using charts, tables, and dashboards.
Use Project’s power tools. Customize Project’s features and views, and transfer info via the cloud, using Microsoft SkyDrive.
Get up to speed on Microsoft Project 2013 and learn how to manage projects large and small. This crystal-clear book not only guides you step-by-step through Project 2013’s new features, it also gives you real-world guidance: how to prep a project before touching your PC, and which Project tools will keep you on target. With this Missing Manual, you’ll go from project manager to Project master. Download eBook Free »
Best practices for designing and managing worksheets
Creating formulas and functions
Performing statistical, what-if, and other data analysis
Core to advanced charting techniques
Using graphics and sparklines
Managing databases and tables
Automating Excel with macros and custom functions
Collaborating in Excel online, in the cloud, and more
Extending Excel
Microsoft Excel 2013 Inside Out
You’re beyond the basics so dive in and really put your spreadsheet skills to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Learn how the experts tackle Excel 2013 and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. Includes companion eBook and sample files. Download eBook Free »
Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid: Implementing Security Controls into the Modern Power Infrastructure
Discover the potential of the Smart Grid
Learn in depth about its systems
See its vulnerabilities and how best to protect it
Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid: Implementing Security Controls into the Modern Power Infrastructure
Many people think of the Smart Grid as a power distribution group built on advanced smart metering-but that’s just one aspect of a much larger and more complex system. The “Smart Grid” requires new technologies throughout energy generation, transmission and distribution, and even the homes and businesses being served by the grid. This also represents new information paths between these new systems and services, all of which represents risk, requiring a more thorough approach to where and how cyber security controls are implemented.
This insight provides a detailed architecture of the entire Smart Grid, with recommended cyber security measures for everything from the supply chain to the consumer. Download eBook Free »
Advanced Persistent Threat: Understanding the Danger and How to Protect Your Organization
How and why organizations are being attacked
How to develop a “Risk based Approach to Security”
Tools for protecting data and preventing attacks
Critical information on how to respond and recover from an intrusion
The emerging threat to Cloud based networks
The newest threat to security has been categorized as the Advanced Persistent Threat or APT. The APT bypasses most of an organization’s current security devices, and is typically carried out by an organized group, such as a foreign nation state or rogue group with both the capability and the intent to persistently and effectively target a specific entity and wreak havoc. Most organizations do not understand how to deal with it and what is needed to protect their network from compromise.
In Advanced Persistent Threat: Understanding the Danger and How to Protect Your Organization Eric Cole discusses the critical information that readers need to know about APT and how to avoid being a victim. Download eBook Free »
Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime
Historical perspectives of the development of malware as it evolved into a viable economic endeavour
Country specific cyber-crime analysis of the United States, China, and Russia, as well as an analysis of the impact of Globalization on cyber-crime.
Presents the behind the scenes methods used to successfully execute financially motivated attacks in a globalized cybercrime economy.
Provides unique insights, analysis, and useful tools for justifying corporate information security budgets.
Provides multiple points of view, from pure research, to corporate, to academic, to law enforcement.
Includes real world cybercrime case studies and profiles of high-profile cybercriminals.
Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime explains the basic economic truths of the underworld of hacking, and why people devote hours to develop malware around the world. The root cause analysis of the monetization of cybersecurity in the inner circle of cybercrime is analyzed from the impact of multiple. Written by an exceptional author team, they take practical academic principles back them up with use cases and extensive interviews, placing you right into the mindset of the cyber criminal. Download eBook Free »
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