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Alternatives to Countdown to Zero Day
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Countdown to Zero Day. If Countdown to Zero Day is the wrong fit at beginner level, start here.
01 · 2018
Cyber
A strategic analysis of cyber conflict as permanent, sub-threshold warfare — and what France and Europe should do about it — by a former senior French strategist and a consultant.
Intermediate4/5Jean-Louis Gergorin, Léo Isaac-Dognin02 · 2015
Introduction à la cyberstratégie
A foundational French introduction to cyberstrategy — treating cyberspace as a domain of strategic thought — by a former officer and strategy scholar.
Intermediate3/5Olivier Kempf03 · 2014
Cybertactique
The tactical companion to Cyberstratégie — how cyber operations are actually conducted, from planning to execution — by a French officer and strategist.
Intermediate3/5Bertrand Boyer04 · 2013
La cyberstratégie russe
A focused study of Russia's approach to cyberspace — doctrine, actors and information warfare — one of the few French-language books dedicated to a single state's cyberstrategy.
Intermediate3/5Yannick Harrel05 · 2013
Le cyberespace
A collective volume from a French military-strategic colloquium arguing that cyberspace is a genuine new domain of strategic thought — short, dense, and foundational to the French school.
Intermediate3/5Stéphane Dossé, Olivier Kempf, Christian Malis06 · 2012
Cyberstratégie
An early French military-strategic treatment of cyberspace as a theatre of operations — doctrine, deterrence and the determinants of a national cyber policy — by a French officer and strategist.
Intermediate3/5Bertrand Boyer07 · 2020
The Hacker and the State
Ben Buchanan's argument that state-on-state cyber operations are not deterrence-shaped (like nuclear) but signaling-shaped: countries use cyber to shape the environment, not to threaten escalation. Builds the case from declassified incidents.
Beginner5/5Ben Buchanan08 · 2019
Sandworm
Long-form journalism on the GRU's hacking operations, the best non-technical book on what state-level cyber actually looks like.
Beginner5/5Andy Greenberg09 · 2022
The Ransomware Hunting Team
Investigative journalism on the volunteers who quietly cracked ransomware to free victims for free, while the FBI mostly watched. A people-first look at the early ransomware economy.
Beginner4/5Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden10 · 2021
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth's reporting on the global zero-day market: how exploits get bought, by whom, and how the gray-then-black market shapes which vulnerabilities get fixed and which get hoarded.
Beginner4/5Nicole Perlroth