Byte Wars: The Impact of September 11 on Information Technology

by Edward Yourdon

Book Overview

Less sensationalistic than its title suggests, Byte Wars: The Impact of September 11 on Information Technology compiles software developer Edward Yourdon's timely concerns about 21st-century IT... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130477257
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Broad Assessment of What 9/11 means to IT

Provides the big picture as concerns IT post-September 11th. Implications and advice for policy makers, execs, IT workers, and interested citizens. There are certainly things in here you haven't thought about yet, as well as a provocative section on reassessing your own personal priorities and philosophies in light of the enormity of recent world events. Highly readable (not at all a techie tome). I heartily recommend this book.

Finally, a computer geek that sees and tells the truth

How refreshing to read a book re the IT industry that encompasses the new realities of the world that MUST be integrated into the future for the survival of IT and its professionals. Without this knowledge, all IT professionals are at risk, as is the entire industry.9/11 has had a profound effect on all of us, from emotions to commerce, including the world of IT. Like it or not, our world will never be the same. Ed Yourdon lays it out, separates truth from fiction, and gives us a map to protect ourselves and our companies from IT terrorists. Without a doubt, crises are on the horizan and the IT professional who has thought the unthinkable, and done his homework, is going to be much further ahead. Thank you Mr Yourdon for your interesting, challenging, and sometimes, very frightening book. It should be on every professional IT's desk, and every CEO's bookcase.J.A. Richardson, MD

An important new work

Our front-line defense against terror is to seal the borders, to keep the rascals out (reasonably possible because THEY look different). But attacks on our information infrastructure -- the new heart and soul of our economy -- can be conducted by rascals from the security of their homes and caves or from any old internet cafe in downtown Rowalpindi. Ed Yourdon's thoughtful assessment of our new Achilles Heel is must reading.

Wonderful Book

This book is a great read to help understand all of the implications of what is possibly ahead because of the changes brought about by 9/11.These are things that we need to think about very seriously as they will have a profound affect on our future.Y2K turned out in part to be a non-event because of all the attenion that was paid to it in advance. Without the efforts of Mr. Yourdon and several others the results would have been far worse.As a businees software developer for over 20 years I know first hand the need to think about possible bad consequences in advance.

A sensible approach to information technology risks

If you are a manager in a computer-dependent business, you need to read this book to find out how to minimize your computer-related risks. September 11th was just one event, albeit a very big one, but thousands of computer risks surface every day in much more mundane ways. If you aren't planning how to prevent and/or deal with such risks, you are putting your business at risk.Should others buy this book? It's easy enough to read that everyone could learn something from it. But if you didn't worry about Y2k, you probably won't worry about computer risks in general, and this book might not convince you otherwise.