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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 · 2025
Sécurité des architectures cloud
An expert-level book focused on securing an API management platform in a modern cloud environment, with a progressive, operational approach through to how artificial intelligence contributes to API cybersecurity.
Advanced4/5Joel Gauci04 · 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 Wolfhugel05 · 2026
Practical AI Security
The founder of an AI-security firm, with a PhD in adversarial machine learning, walks from how models fail to how they're exploited to how they're defended and audited, with over 30 hands-on Python demos.
Advanced4/5Harriet Farlow06 · 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 Cucci07 · 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 Pernet08 · 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 Ventre09 · 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 Valois10 · 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 Grubb