Conquer the Web: The Ultimate Cybersecurity Guide

by Nick Wilding

This is the ultimate guide to protect your data on the web. From passwords to opening emails, everyone knows what they should do but do you do it?  Tons of malicious content floods the internet which can compromise your system and your device, be it your laptop, tablet or phone. How often do you make payments online? Do you have children and want to ensure they stay safe online? How often do you sit at a coffee shop and log onto their free WIFI? How often do you use social media on the train or bus? If you believe using an antivirus software will keep devices safe... you are wrong. This book will guide you and provide solutions to avoid common mistakes and to combat cyber attacks. This Guide covers areas such as building resilience into our IT Lifestyle; Online Identity; Cyber Scenarios and Stories; Protecting Devices; Download and share; Gaming, gamble and travel; Copycat websites; I Spy and QR Codes; Banking, apps and Passwords.  Includes chapers from Nick Wilding, General Manager at AXELOS, Tim Mitchell, Content Director at Get Safe Online, Maureen Kendal, Director at Cybercare, Nick Ioannou, Founder of Boolean Logical, and CYBERAWARE.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2018

Reviews

[Book Him Danno · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was hoping this would be something I could use as a reference tool when it comes to understand the internet as a mother of young children. In all honestly it wasn't anything I didn't already know which was disappointing because I do not see myself as well versed in this world. Everything that is mention are things I do daily but in fact I already know what not to do when it comes to free WIFI and I felt the authors in many ways talk down to the average consumers.

While Conquer The Web gives readers stories that will help those with very little knowledge of the internet to fix their issues the average every day consumer who is being raised with this lifestyle will find it giving very little new information.

It might be a great introduction to preteen's who do not know anything else but a life of internet web use but for those who are in the here and now this is nothing more than a reminder of what you are already doing.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Legend Times Group for a copy of Nick Wilding, Time Mitchell, Maureen Kendal and Nick Ioannou's Conquer The Web.

[Jatin Lalwani · Rating 1 out of 5]

**Warning: this text may contain spoilers** Far too implied and repetitive and merely scratched the surface on an otherwise very vast topic to learn about. A good book for someone who hasn't used any electronic device through his life or someone who is less knowledgeable in the field. But, in my opinion, this book did not tell me something which I didn't already know. Could have been a better guide and considering the people who wrote it are knowledgeable in their fields could have gave us a better technical advice rather than iterating the same few points on multiple occasions.
The book basical speaks on malware and it's kinds, the importance of antivirus, few basic precautions we can take as an individual.

[Maya · Rating 2 out of 5]

The "Ultimate Cybersecurity Guide," you say?

I wouldn't bet on it.

Personally, I wouldn't consider this a cybersecurity guide; it's more like a basic primer, if that. I'm quite knowledgeable in the tech field, but most of the things in this book are the basic precautions that just about everyone, regardless of experience, already knows.

Overall, I'd only recommend this if you know next to nothing about the internet and want nothing more than a few of the basics. If you're interested in expanding your knowledge of cybersecurity, however, look elsewhere.