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Book Review: Practical Social Engineering

Uday Mittal January 7, 2023

Book Review: Practical Social Engineering

One of the important aspects of a red team engagement is Social Egineering (SE). It often paves the way for initial compromise within the target organization network (assuming that the engagement is not following assumed breach methodology). However, most texts on red team engagements delve only briefly into this subject.  Therefore, I chose social engineering […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Cybersecurity books, red team, Social Engineering

Book Review: How to Hack Like a GHOST

Uday Mittal December 21, 2022

Book Review: How to Hack Like a GHOST

After completing my last book, I decided to go for another Sparc Flow book. Full disclosure, it had been in my partial read pile for some time (don’t let that reflect on the quality of the book, that’s totally on me). This review is for the book How to Hack Like a GHOST by Sparc […]

Filed Under: Adversary Emulation, Book Reviews Tagged With: adversary emulation, Cloud security, cybersecurity, devops, opsec, red team

Book Review: Ethical Hacking

Uday Mittal December 10, 2022

Book Review: Ethical Hacking

It’s been some time since I posted my last review, so here comes the next one. This one is for the book Ethical Hacking by Daniel G. Graham. It’s been a couple of months since I finished this book. That’s the time it takes (at least for me) to truly absorb all the information presented […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: cybersecurity, Cybersecurity books, Ethcial hacking, offensive security, Penetration Testing

Book Review: How to Hack Like a LEGEND

Uday Mittal August 15, 2022

Book Review: How to Hack Like a LEGEND

After completing the CCSP certification, I decided to switch gears and pick-up a book focusing on red teaming or adversary emulation. I chose How to Hack Like a LEGEND by Sparc Flow. This book is part of the series, Hack The Planet. The first edition of this book was independently published by the author in […]

Filed Under: Adversary Emulation, Book Reviews Tagged With: adversary emulation, Cybersecurity books, ethical hacking, opsec, red team

Book Review: CCSP For Dummies

Uday Mittal July 5, 2022

Book Review: CCSP For Dummies

I recently enrolled for the Certified Cloud Security Professional certification by (ISC)2. One of the books recommended to me for preparing for this certification was CCSP for Dummies by Arthur J. Deane. It was published in November 2020 by For Dummies publication (a brand of John Wiley & Sons, Inc). I will not go into […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Essential Certifications Tagged With: (ISC)2, ccsp, Cloud security

Book Review: Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

Uday Mittal June 17, 2022

Book Review: Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

The Humble Bundle recently launched a Cyber Warfare book bundle. The bundle contained 24 books but Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies by Dr. Chase Cunningham intrigued me so I decided to pick this book as my next read. It was published in February 2020 by Packt Publishing. This is not the only book […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: cyber-warfare, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity books, deep fakes

Book Review: Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting

Uday Mittal May 17, 2022 Leave a Comment

Book Review: Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting

A part of my work involves working with Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) so I wanted to brush up my CTI knowledge and learn new concepts (maybe!). I picked up Practical Threat Intelligence and Data-Driven Threat Hunting by Valentina Costa-Gazcón (published in October 2020 by Packt Publishing Limited). This book has been on my reading list […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: adversary emulation, Cybersecurity books, MITRE ATT&CK, red team, threat hunting, threat intelligence

Book Review: Hacking API

Uday Mittal April 23, 2022

Book Review: Hacking API

After taking some time to finish my eLearnSecurity Certified Reverse Engineer certification, I decided to pick up another book. This time I chose API security as the topic and went for Hacking APIs: Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces by Corey Ball. It was published in April 2022 by No Starch Press. Content Overview This book […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: API, API Security, Burp, crAPI, GraphQL, OWASP Top 10, Postman, REST API

Book Review: Pentesting Azure Applications

Uday Mittal December 27, 2021 Leave a Comment

Book Review: Pentesting Azure Applications

In continuance of my research in cloud security, I picked up another book on Azure security. The book was Pentesting Azure Applications – The Definitive Guide to Testing and Securing Deployments by Matt Burrough. I got it as part of the Humble Book Bundle.  It was published in July 2018 and was the only book […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: azue, Cloud security, Penetration Testing

Book Review: Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers

Uday Mittal December 23, 2021

Book Review: Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers

I have been researching cloud security off late. Recently, the book, Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers by David Okeyode , Karl Fosaaen, showed up on my Twitter feed. The book had good reviews so I decided to pick it up.  It was published recently (at the time of writing), in November 2021 (another reason […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Azure, Azure Active Directory, Cloud security, Penetration Testing

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