I've been hesitant to review this book as I know some of the authors well enough to know that their writing and thoughts are fabulous. However, with two editors on this book, you'd think there would have been some actual editing done. This is a book that is essentially a collection of first-draft blog posts. Each "article" by the various experts talks about cloud security in a way that varies from brilliant to mind-numbingly incoherent. Editing is more than just running a spell check, you need to make sure that the various authors' works can be strung together to form a theme throughout the book. Further, each "article" needs to contain a complete thought. Many ramble on for a long time with too many subsections containing a sentence or two without ever completing a thought. Many "articles" end suddenly without ever giving you a feeling about what their point was. My comments on editing are more than just concerns about grammar and style (of which there are many problems that contribute to a lack of clear, understandable writing). It is also about those macro editing issues that will keep this book from receiving the recognition that it deserves. I understand that there is a revision of this book being done for a release later this year, and I hope that there is better emphasis put on editing in the next edition.
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