When you assemble your 2018 cybersecurity reading list, there may be no better place to start than with BookAuthority, a website based on thousands of recommendations made by hundreds of industry leaders. Hone your skills and increase your knowledge base by adding the following top entries from BookAuthority’s “100 Best Cyber Security Books of All Time” to your 2018 reading list.
“Blue Team Field Manual,” by Alan J. White, is a cybersecurity incident response guide aligning with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework consisting of the five core functions—identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover—by providing the steps to follow and commands to use when encountering a cybersecurity incident.
“Cyber Security Handbook: Protect Yourself Against Cyber Crime,” by W. Muse Greenwood, is an information resource to help business owners, leaders and team members develop policies and procedures.
“Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It,” by Marc Goodman, offers a journey into the digital underground to expose the ways in which criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies.
“Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon,” by Kim Zetter, recounts the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts. Zetter’s book describes how a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as the most destructive bomb.
“The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election,” by Malcolm Nance, is must reading for anyone concerned with the way in which cyber thieves hacked the Democratic National Committee and stole sensitive documents, emails, donor information, and voice mails with the singular goal of getting Donald Trump elected president.
Finally, you will want to add “Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization,” by University of Maryland University College’s own Mansur Hasib, widely acclaimed as the definitive book on cybersecurity leadership and governance. It defines cybersecurity and expands upon its three key tenets—people, policy and technology.
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