The Cybersecurity Canon is an interesting website: https://cybercanon.paloaltonetworks.com/
listing books every cybersecurity professional should read. The goal of the site is ''To identify a list of must-read books for all cybersecurity practitioners – be they from industry, government or academia -- where the content is timeless, genuinely represents an aspect of the community that is true and precise, reflects the highest quality and, if not read, will leave a hole in the cybersecurity professional’s education that will make the practitioner incomplete.''
The complete list has been organized as a List on LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/list/11177/all/Cybersecurity-Canon-award-winners-
The awards started in 2014 with one book:
* We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency (2012) by Parmy Olson.
Award winners expanded to 4 in 2015:
* Spam Nation
* The Cuckoo’s Egg
* Winning as a CISO
* Countdown to Zero Day
The canon expanded again in 2016, to 8 award winners:
* The CERT Guide to Insider Threats
* Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
* Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
* @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
* Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach
* Kingpin: How a Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (2011) by Kevin Poulsen
* Zero Day - Mark Russinovich
* Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applied to Cyber Warfare
Source: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/threat-research/cybercanon/canon-award-winners
2/14/2018 Update - 2017 award winners:
* How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk by Douglas W. Hubbard
* The Practice of Network Security Monitoring: Understanding Incident Detection and Response by Richard Bejtlich
* The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
* Hacking Exposed 7: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Seventh Edition by Stuart McClure
* Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security by Christopher Hadnagy
* Secrets and lies : digital security in a networked world by Bruce Schneier
See the updated book list at http://www.librarything.com/list/11177/all/Cybersecurity-Canon-award-winners-. At the end of 2017, the Cybersecurity Canon is made up of 19 award winners.
Links to the Paloalto Networks site:
* https://cybercanon.paloaltonetworks.com/ The Cybersecurity Canon site
* https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/canon/ Blog, including Canon book reviews
listing books every cybersecurity professional should read. The goal of the site is ''To identify a list of must-read books for all cybersecurity practitioners – be they from industry, government or academia -- where the content is timeless, genuinely represents an aspect of the community that is true and precise, reflects the highest quality and, if not read, will leave a hole in the cybersecurity professional’s education that will make the practitioner incomplete.''
The complete list has been organized as a List on LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/list/11177/all/Cybersecurity-Canon-award-winners-
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The awards started in 2014 with one book:
* We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency (2012) by Parmy Olson.
Award winners expanded to 4 in 2015:
* Spam Nation
* The Cuckoo’s Egg
* Winning as a CISO
* Countdown to Zero Day
The canon expanded again in 2016, to 8 award winners:
* The CERT Guide to Insider Threats
* Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
* Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
* @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
* Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach
* Kingpin: How a Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (2011) by Kevin Poulsen
* Zero Day - Mark Russinovich
* Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applied to Cyber Warfare
Source: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/threat-research/cybercanon/canon-award-winners
2/14/2018 Update - 2017 award winners:
* How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk by Douglas W. Hubbard
* The Practice of Network Security Monitoring: Understanding Incident Detection and Response by Richard Bejtlich
* The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
* Hacking Exposed 7: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Seventh Edition by Stuart McClure
* Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security by Christopher Hadnagy
* Secrets and lies : digital security in a networked world by Bruce Schneier
See the updated book list at http://www.librarything.com/list/11177/all/Cybersecurity-Canon-award-winners-. At the end of 2017, the Cybersecurity Canon is made up of 19 award winners.
Links to the Paloalto Networks site:
* https://cybercanon.paloaltonetworks.com/ The Cybersecurity Canon site
* https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/canon/ Blog, including Canon book reviews
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