Books by Lennan Carver
Sixteen titles on Amazon Kindle and paperback. Compliance guides for small defense contractors, cybersecurity handbooks for regulated industries, and plain-English guides for families. Written for people who have to get this right without a security team behind them.
Defense & Compliance
CMMC, NIST 800-171, CUICMMC 2.0 Compliance Survival Guide
Level 1 and the FAR 52.204-21 basics, written for shops that just got a flow-down clause and no explanation.
CMMC 2.0 Level 2 Assessment Readiness Workbook
Work through all 110 NIST 800-171 controls yourself, before an assessor does it for you.
The CMMC Level 2 System Security Plan (SSP)
What control 3.12.4 actually requires, and what an assessor reads first when your SSP lands on their desk.
CUI Handling Guide for Small Defense Contractors
Tell CUI from FCI, mark it correctly, and understand what pulls a system into your assessment scope.
NIST 800-171 for Small Defense Contractors
All 110 controls translated out of federal language and into what a 15-person shop has to actually do.
Companion toolkits
The books explain the requirement. These are the working files, if you would rather not build the spreadsheets and templates from scratch.
Industry & Business Guides
Sector-specific risk and regulationAuto Dealership Cybersecurity
FTC Safeguards Rule compliance for dealerships, including the written information security program you are required to have.
Construction Industry Cybersecurity Survival Guide
Protect your projects, meet the requirements on federal work, and keep ransomware off the job site.
Wire Fraud Prevention: A Cybersecurity Playbook for Real Estate
The closing-day wire that never reaches escrow, and the verification steps that stop it from leaving.
How AI Will Affect Your Business
Deepfakes, voice cloning, and the new threats a leader is expected to have an answer for.
The 17% Edge: AI for Real Estate Agents
A 30-day system for converting the leads you already have, with simple prompts and faster follow-up.
AWS Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 Exam Cram
Everything on the CLF-C02 exam blueprint, and nothing that is not on it.
Family & Consumer Safety
Written for readers, not IT departmentsDon't Get Scammed by AI
Voice cloning, deepfakes, and the grandparent scam, explained plainly and without making anyone feel foolish.
AI Predators & Your Child
Every parent's recognition and response handbook for AI-enabled grooming and online manipulation.
Raising Safe Kids in a Deepfake World
Honest advice for families working out what is real online and what rules are worth setting at home.
Plain-English Money Guides
Benefits and accounts, without the jargonMedicare for People Turning 65
Parts A through D, when the enrollment windows open and close, and which late penalties do not go away.
Trump Accounts Explained
What the new Section 530A accounts are, who can open one, and how the money is treated going in and coming out.
New compliance analysis goes on the blog first, usually before it shows up in a book.
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