Cyber Security Research
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I recently picked up this book, Red Team Development and Operations by Joe Vest and James Tubberville, while searching for material to read on Red Teaming. While this is not the only book on the subject, I was intrigued by the ‘Zero-Day Edition’ (along with this content, of course). Also, it was published recently (at […]
I recently came across this book, Container Security by Liz Rice, while searching for material to read on how to secure containerized applications. This was the only book I could find on the topic, so I picked it up without thinking further. It was published in April 2020. Content overview The book’s tagline, “Fundamental Technology […]
I recently came across this book, Web Application Security by Andrew Hoffman, while searching for material to read on how to secure web applications. There are many books available on this topic. I picked this one specifically because of it’s recent publication date. It was published in March 2020 (about 5 month back, at the […]
I came across The Florentine Deception in the Cybersecurity Canon List. It was listed as a gateway book for 2016. Written by, Carey Nachenberg, co-inventor of Norton Antivirus, it is a suspense thriller novel with cybersecurity as an underlying theme. It is one of those cybersecurity focused novels which amalgamate the two worlds in a […]
One thing any Cyber Security Professional crave is good literature on the subject. While there are many books that cover the basics and introduce the reader to the field, there are few which have the potential to spark a debate. My search for such books led me to Cybersecurity Canon list. Cybersecurity Canon Project was […]
