Byte Wars: The Impact of September 11 on Information Technology (Yourdon Press Computing Series) - Softcover

Yourdon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130477257 ISBN 13: 9780130477255

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, 2002

Synopsis

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are transforming information technology, leading to profound and permanent changes. This text focuses on the immediate changes IT professionals are already encountering in 2002 and the long-term changes for which they must prepare.

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About the Author

EDWARD YOURDON is an internationally recognized consultant, lecturer, and author or coauthor of more than 25 books, including Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects, Death March, and The Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer. Widely known as the lead developer of structured analysis/design methods in the 1970s and the popular Coad/Yourdon object-oriented methodology in the early 1990s, he has been inducted into the Computer Hall of Fame along with such notables as Charles Babbage, Seymour Cray, James Martin, Grace Hopper, Gerald Weinberg, and Bill Gates.

From the Back Cover

How 9/11 is transforming IT—and how to survive the new "decade of security"!

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are transforming information technology, leading to profound and permanent changes. In this book, Ed Yourdon—legendary software engineering expert and author of Decline and Fall of the American Programmer—focuses on the immediate changes IT professionals are already encountering and the long-term changes they must prepare for. Yourdon addresses 9/11's impact on IT at every level: strategic, national, corporate, and personal. Coverage includes:

• "Thinking the unthinkable": Identifying and managing risks you've never considered
• New "decade of security" that is following the '90s "decade of productivity" and the '80s "decade of quality"
• Privacy landscape changed forever: what it means to your organization—and to you
• New threats, new paradigms, new counter measures (the balance of security vs. functionality)
• "Death March," security, disaster recovery, and contingency planning projects
• The new balance of security vs. functionality
• Increasing the resilience of your IT infrastructure
• Grassroots, peer-to-peer collaboration: responding to tomorrow's unpredictable, chaotic crises

Yourdon doesn't just present problems: he outlines specific strategy options designed to lead to more effective decision-making—for IT professionals, projectmanagers and senior corporate executives, government leaders, and citizens alike.

"One of the ten most influential men and women in the software field."

—Crosstalk magazine

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130477257
• ISBN 13: 9780130477255
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300