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Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A four-thousand-year history of cryptography ranges from the time of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the present, explaining encryption's development and evolution, looking at famous codes, and offering clues for code-breaking.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Amy and Dan travel to a distant land to follow in the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet, a military leader who teaches them the art of ancient warfare.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
National Bestseller
NPR Best Book of the Year
"Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." —The New York Times
Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented
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Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill continue to hunt for clues while reeling from the knowledge of what happened the night their parents died, and they wonder if the end is near as they try to learn the secret behind Grace Cahill's alternate will.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphans Amy and Dan Cahill, continuing their worldwide quest to track down the thirty-nine clues that will reveal the secret of the Cahill family's power, follow a link to one of the planet's strongest fighters, and have a run-in with the unreliable Alistair.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The complete untold story of the cracking of the infamous Nazi code
Most histories of the cracking of the elusive Enigma code focus on the work done by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park, Britain's famous World War II counterintelligence station. In this fascinating account, however, we are told, for the first time, the hair-raising stories of the heroic British and American sailors, spies, and secret agents who put their lives on the line to provide...
10) The codebreaker
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII. A suburban wife and mother who led a secret double life, her remarkable contributions to the science of cryptology would only come to light decades after her death when classified...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Risk management is the central idea of ISO 27001. And, the way ISO 27001 tells you to achieve this tailor-made suit is to perform risk assessment and risk treatment." This book, ISO 27001 Risk Management in Plain English, is a quick read for people who are focused solely on risk management. It has one aim in mind: to give you the knowledge and practical step-by-step process you need to successfully implement ISO 27001 risk assessment and treatment...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this book, Dejan Kosutic, author and experienced information security consultant, is giving away his practical know-how on ISO 27001 security controls. No matter if you are new or experienced in the field, this book teaches you everything you need to know about security controls.
ISO 27001 Annex A Controls in Plain English is written primarily for beginners to ISO 27001, and for people with moderate knowledge about Annex A of the standard and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Agile Information Security, James Fitzer provides sound guidance and examples on working agility into your information security process, using Scrum as a framework, and lessons learned from the Northern Border Integration Demonstration, a high-profile U.S. Border Security project. You will find advice, examples, and team-building concepts designed to make your information security program more effective by trimming the fat from your security process...
Author
Language
English
Description
It seems like everywhere you go on the Internet, there is spam, spyware, and the risk of viruses infecting your computer and ruining your online experience. In businesses alone, according to Nucleus Research Inc. spam costs more than $712 per employee each year in productivity and computing resources and the estimation on money lost by businesses due to computer viruses ranges between $100 million and $2 billion annually depending on how the total...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping history of the NSA and its codebreaking achievements from World War II through the Cold War shares insights into the challenges faced by cryptanalysts and their role in some of the most complicated events of the twentieth century,"--NoveList.
Publisher
Dayton Codebreakers Project]
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, German U-boats were sending American ships to the bottom of the Atlantic. The U.S. Navy took the problem of deciphering the Germans' encrypted messages to the Dayton-based company NCR, where a top-secret laboratory was set up to design and build codebreaking machines. The Navy came to NCR because of the expertise of an engineer named Joe Desch, despite doubts about his loyalty due to his German ancestry. Desch and his team built a successful...
Author
Language
English
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Description
An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
Author
Language
English
Description
A brilliant female codebreaker. An "unbreakable" Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker's Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America's darkest hour.
A dual-timeline historical novel of codebreaking, secrets, murder, and romance, set in Hawaii in 1943 and 1965, follows two women--a cryptanalyist working to defeat the Japanese Army, and a rookie journalist investigating...
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