Risky Business: Protect Your Business from Being Stalked, Conned, or Blackmailed on the Web

Common sense is often obvious only in retrospect. If you are starting or running an online business of any kind, this layman's oriented approach to security is the perfect place for you to start protecting yourself and your business from all kinds of nasties...o hackerso intellectual rights infringerso etc., etc. -- even your own employees!It's given me the right place to start asking my techies the right questions on numerous security-related issues. It's *THE* "protect yourself" book that we recommend in our book, "Make Your Site SELL!"While a couple of parts are getting a touch dated, most issues are evergreen. I'm sure I'll find myself referring to it five years from now, if Dan can't convince the publisher to issue a new edition (hint, hint, Dan!).Thanks Dan, for an unequivocal 5-star effort.------Ken Evoy, [email protected]

This well-written book by Dan Janal is a "must read" book for people interested in protecting themselves and their businesses from Internet scams and fraud. We often recommend it to the subscribers of Internet ScamBusters (the number one electronic newsletter on Internet fraud). Dan provides a very realistic assessment of what to watch out for online - and unfortunately, there are lots of issues. But fortunately, it's not too hard to protect yourself when you know what to look for.Dr. Audri G. Lanford, editor Internet ScamBusters

There's a lot of happy talk out there about the Internet...some of it is true, much of it isn't. Risky Business is the first book I've come across in my considerable experience that takes on the dicey issues of how to protect yourself on the Internet. Even as one of the original Internet pioneers, I find myself referring to this book repeatedly for a number of different reasons. Identity theft, hacking, and myriad concerns that I face day in, day out on the Net drive me back to this book, time and time again. It's a clear-eyed, realistic assessment of what you should look out for online...in other words, how to watch your back. Whether you're a vice president managing a 50,000-node network for a corporation or a mother with kids, you should have this book in hand. --Larry Chase, publisher Web Digest For Marketers

The author who helped so many people go into business on the net with books such as "Online Marketing Handbook" and "101 Businesses You Can Start on the Internet" is now examining the pitfalls of doing business in cyberspace.The book covers such threats as software piracy, stock price manipulation, rogue web sites that attack your business, impersonation and identity theft. But Janal does not limit his scope to external threats. One superb chapter deals with protecting a business from its own employees, including sample wording for company handbooks regarding proper Internet usage. Janal looks at the many ways your competitors can use the Internet to glean everything from mundane news releases to trade secrets. He helps you weigh the marketing benefits vs. the security risks of putting company information online. Finally, he provides some good suggestions for safeguarding sensitive information.

Dan Janal's book is one awesome manual for protecting one's business and business interests!! This book is written with vital information that many times is lost upon "'newbies' to the net or to 'newbies' to the Age of Digital Technology." Mr. Janal has the ability to make vital computer information personal, pertinant and pithy without compromising the importance or impact that exists in the "brave new world" the internet provides to consumers moving into the 21st Century. No matter how comfortable one may be with computers or the Web, I recommend this book to be bought, read and re-read to gleen all of the pertinant tidbits that surely must not be forgetten while transacting any business on the Web!