The increased use of technology is necessary in order for industrial control systems to maintain and monitor industrial, infrastructural, or environmental processes. The need to secure and identify threats to the system is equally critical. Securing Critical Infrastructures and Critical Control Systems: Approaches for Threat Protection provides a full and detailed understanding of the vulnerabilities and security threats that exist within an industrial control system. This collection of research defines and analyzes the technical, procedural, and managerial responses to securing these...

The Young Oaks is an American epic. Spanning the Twentieth Century, bringing to life generations of living characters, all in a world so real you can taste it. Can a man bring himself back from the abyss? Can a woman hold together her family with her love and her will? Can a lost young man find redemption? Read this book, hilarious, violent, tragic - the first of a duology- and you will want to come home again, to laugh and to cry with the characters you have grown to love, to share the lives you have seen unfold.

The saga of The Young Oaks continues in Book Two: Unusual Gifts. Some will rise and some will fall as Dan McGregor finds himself teetering between hope and fate, fulfillment and downfall, torn by the conflicting forces of his own mind. Crushed by a burden of remorse, will he redeem himself or answer the steady call of darkness? Return to this living world and breathe it in once more.