Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks

Seven Deadliest UC Attacks book is "launched"... kinda, sorta...

Silly me! I naively thought that maybe this time around the "launch" of the book could actually be nailed down to "a day".

You see, back in the 1990's and early 2000's when I wrote my other four books, it was a different era. Amazon.com wasn't quite the enormous industry player that it is today. You sent your text and edits into the publisher and then sometime a book showed up at your house... and sometime after that it appeared in local book stores. Sometime... whenever...

Fast forward 8 years and I thought it might be different now. I thought the launch date could be nailed down. I watched friends like Chris Brogan, Mitch Joel and Steve Garfield all focus on "launches" of their books on specific days... and figured it would be similar for mine.

Nope.

Now, granted, all of their books are targeted at the larger marketing/communications audience... and maybe they planned for a date after availability... and given everything else on my plate, I didn't really spend that much time working on a launch plan. I just sort of thought it might work out easier.

The editors, publicity folks and others at Syngress were all great. They told me...

Yea! Received my advance copies of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks

Only a few hours after writing my post today saying that I still didn't have a copy of the book, a UPS truck pulled up outside my house and dropped off a box...

Having submitted the chapters back in November, December and early January ... and then worked on proofs of the pages in February and early March... it's great to finally hold the final version in my hands.

The book is now sort of available... Syngress is apparently selling the book from their site and they tell me the book should be available at Amazon any day now...

Acknowledgements section of Seven Deadliest UC Attacks now online

As there were many people who helped out in some way with the creation of this book, I want to publicly acknowledge many of those folks by posting the Acknowledgements section that appears in the book.

MANY thanks to everyone who helped. It's a better book because of all you did!

7 Deadliest UC Attacks spotted in the wild - at the InfoSec 10 conf in London

While I still don't have a copy of the book yet, Jason Ostrom of Sipera System's Viper Labs is over speaking at the InfoSecurity Europe 2010 conference in London and went by the Syngress booth where they have advance copies. The Syngress folks nicely sent along this pic via Twitter (click on the image to see the larger version):

I'm glad Jason got to see the book (he wrote a nice pre-review)... I'm hoping my copy shows up here soon!

P.S. If you have pictures like this of you with the book, it would be fun to have some on the Facebook page... please feel free to add them there.

Video intro to "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks" - why did I write this book?

Why did I write this book?  What makes it different from all the other "VoIP security" books out there?  What topics do I cover in the book?  To address all those questions, I recorded a little video about the rationale behind the book "Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks":

Telecom Junkies: My first audio interview about 7 Deadliest UC Attacks book

Yesterday the folks over at The Voice Report posted a Telecom Junkies podcast where host Jessica Gdowski interviewed me about the book. As Jessica says in the intro, I'm a "veteran Junkie" in that I've participated in several previous podcasts including an interview with Robert Moore who was convicted of hacking into VoIP systems.

In this interview, Jessica started out asking me about why I wrote this book and how it is different from all the other books out there. We went from there into discussing the parts of the book, the areas I thought are of most concerns, solutions out there and much more. And at the end she had a little contest offering...

You can listen here.

It was fun to do and I thank Jessica for the opportunity to talk about the book. More interviews will be coming in the weeks ahead....

P.S. And if you are interested in interviewing me on your show or for your web site, please contact me.

Book Launch Date Confirmed -> April 28, 2010

So it turns out that the Amazon page for Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks has the wrong info on it. I confirmed this morning with my editor at Syngress that the launch date is not April 15, as listed on Amazon, but instead April 28th.  So... a little bit longer to wait... :-(

(Speaking of the wait, have you pre-ordered the book yet?  If you do, you'll get a copy as soon as they start shipping...)