Recently, I finished reading “The New School of Information Security” by Adam Shostack and Andrew Stewart. It’s only about 200 pages, so it’s certainly worth your time to pick up and read. Some people will compare it to “Security Metrics” by Andrew Jaquith (or many others), but I think this book is very […]

Back in January, I asked Richard Bejtlich in an email to post some tips for reading books. Reading technical books can be a drag at times, yet somehow he manages to get through several a month. Reading is one of those tasks we all have to do in our line of work, for obvious […]

I’m enthused to hear Ross Anderson has made his book, Security Engineering available online and FREE to download. He explains his reasoning at his website; to reach the widest possible audience, especially among poor students and being a supporter of free culture and free software.
I have no excuse now to read it, and actually cannot […]

I have trouble finishing books I start. For whatever reason, I struggle through it.
I began reading InfoSec Career Hacking: Sell Your Skillz, Not Your Soul before I flew home for the summer, and read up until the last couple chapters and got bored with it. The book has multiple authors and as a result is […]

“In Silence on the Wire, Michał takes us on a long, treacherous journey of a packet, from when the data is first entered to its final destination. Along the way, we look at flaws in the design of computers and networks and how they are eventually exploited.”