Security

50 books

Must-Read1994

Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

Must-Read2014

Countdown to Zero Day

Kim Zetter

Must-Read2010

Cyber War

Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake

Must-Read1737

Cyber War Will Not Take Place

Thomas Rid

Must-Read2016

Dark Territory

Fred Kaplan

Must-Read2015

Data and Goliath

Bruce Schneier

Must-Read2011

Ghost in the Wires

Kevin Mitnick

Must-Read2015

Governing the Commons

Elinor Ostrom

Must-Read1996

Handbook of Applied Cryptography

Menezes, van Oorschot, Vanstone

Must-Read2003

Intelligence in War

John Keegan

Must-Read2012

Liars and Outliers

Bruce Schneier

Must-Read1998

Privacy on the Line

Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau

Must-Read2016

Rise of the Machines

Thomas Rid

Must-Read2019

Sandworm

Andy Greenberg

Must-Read2000

Secrets and Lies

Bruce Schneier

Must-Read2001

Security Engineering

Ross Anderson

Must-Read2001

Software Security

McGraw

Must-Read2011

The Art of Deception

Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon

Must-Read2017

The Art of Invisibility

Kevin Mitnick

Must-Read1967

The Codebreakers

David Kahn

Must-Read1989

The Cuckoo's Egg

Cliff Stoll

Must-Read2019

The Fifth Domain

Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake

Must-Read2020

The Hacker and the State

Ben Buchanan

Must-Read1992

The Hacker Crackdown

Bruce Sterling

Must-Read2013

The Practice of Network Security Monitoring

Richard Bejtlich

Must-Read2016

The Protection of Information in Computer Systems

Saltzer and Schroeder

Must-Read2004

The Tao of Network Security Monitoring

Richard Bejtlich

Must-Read2001

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

John Mearsheimer

Must-Read2021

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Nicole Perlroth

Must-Read2014

Threat Modeling

Adam Shostack

Recommended2005

Counter Hack Reloaded

Skoudis and Liston

Recommended2002

Cryptography and Network Security

William Stallings

Recommended2004

Exploiting Software

Hoglund and McGraw

Recommended2015

Firewalls and Internet Security

Steve Bellovin

Recommended2018

Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

J. Erickson

Recommended2022

If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable

Mikko Hypponen

Recommended2019

Information Security Economics and Beyond

Anderson and Moore

Recommended2002

Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World

Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner

Recommended2014

OWASP Testing Guide

OWASP Foundation

Recommended2003

Practical Cryptography

Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier

Recommended2003

Practical UNIX and Internet Security

Gene Spafford et al.

Recommended2010

Skating on Stilts

Stewart Baker

Recommended2017

SSL And The Future Of Authenticity

Moxie Marlinspike

Recommended2016

The Car Hacker's Handbook

Craig Smith

Recommended2021

The Hardware Hacking Handbook

Jasper van Woudenberg et al.

Recommended2015

Thinking Security

Steve Bellovin

Recommended2012

Windows Internals

Mark Russinovich

Supplementary2014

Advanced Persistent Threat Hacking

Wrightson

Supplementary2015

How to Become a Hacker

Eric S. Raymond

Supplementary2017

The Real Internet of Things

Daniel Miessler