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Alternatives to Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Building Secure and Reliable Systems. If Building Secure and Reliable Systems is the wrong fit at advanced level, start here.
01 · 2023
Security Chaos Engineering
Kelly Shortridge and Aaron Rinehart on treating security as a property of complex adaptive systems: instead of preventing failure, you continuously simulate it, and design the organization to learn from each result.
Advanced5/5Kelly Shortridge, Aaron Rinehart02 · 2020
Security Engineering
Ross Anderson's comprehensive textbook on the design of secure systems, covering protocols, access control, side channels, economics of security, and policy.
Advanced5/5Ross Anderson03 · 2013
Sécurité informatique
A principles-first treatment of information security for DSI, RSSI and sysadmins — architecture, cryptography, network defence and security policy — from two veteran French practitioners.
Advanced4/5Laurent Bloch, Christophe Wolfhugel04 · 2024
Evasive Malware
Kyle Cucci on the anti-analysis arms race: sandbox detection, anti-debug, anti-VM, packing, and the analyst-side tooling and tradecraft that get past those layers.
Advanced4/5Kyle Cucci05 · 2015
Sécurité et espionnage informatique
A technical French guide to advanced persistent threats and cyber-espionage — how APT campaigns work, how to detect them, and how to defend — by one of France's APT specialists.
Advanced4/5Cédric Pernet06 · 2020
Intelligence artificielle, cybersécurité et cyberdéfense
An academic examination of how artificial intelligence reshapes cybersecurity and cyberdefence — opportunities, threats and strategic implications — by France's most prolific cyberwar scholar.
Advanced3/5Daniel Ventre07 · 2010
Tableaux de bord de la sécurité réseau
A practitioner's manual for measuring and steering network security — metrics, dashboards, monitoring and risk indicators — for the people who run security operations.
Advanced3/5Cédric Llorens, Laurent Levier, Denis Valois08 · 2021
How Cybersecurity Really Works
Sam Grubb's gentle, exercise-driven introduction for non-specialists who need a working mental model of attacker behaviour and basic defence.
Beginner4/5Sam Grubb09 · 2019
Foundations of Information Security
Jason Andress' compact tour of the field: confidentiality / integrity / availability, identification and authentication, network and OS controls, written for newcomers and adjacent disciplines.
Beginner4/5Jason Andress10 · 2021
Designing Secure Software
Loren Kohnfelder, the original PKI author, on how to weave security thinking through requirements, design, implementation and operations rather than bolt it on at the end.
Intermediate5/5Loren Kohnfelder