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Alternatives to Data Engineering for Cybersecurity
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Data Engineering for Cybersecurity. If Data Engineering for Cybersecurity is the wrong fit at advanced level, start here.
01 · 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 Pernet02 · 2018
Practical Binary Analysis
Dennis Andriesse on the binary toolchain you can actually script: ELF internals, dynamic taint analysis, symbolic execution and instrumentation with concrete code-along examples.
Advanced5/5Dennis Andriesse03 · 2026
Dissecting the Dark Web
HUMAN Security's VP of Threat Intelligence tears down real malware-as-a-service offerings sold on dark web forums, chapter by chapter, from stealers and loaders to ransomware and living-off-the-land post-exploitation kits.
Advanced4/5Lindsay Kaye04 · 2025
Cybersécurité et Malwares
Now in its 5th edition, the French-language reference for malware analysis by Sébastien Larinier and Paul Rascagnères, a well-known APT threat researcher, running from identification to Threat Intelligence across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
Advanced4/5Sébastien Larinier, Paul Rascagnères05 · 2025
The Art of Mac Malware, Volume 2
The detection-focused sequel to Volume 1, Wardle turns from analyzing Mac malware to building the heuristics and tooling that catch it, using macOS's security frameworks and real-world malware samples throughout.
Advanced4/5Patrick Wardle06 · 2024
Evading EDR
A component-by-component teardown of how modern EDR sensors actually collect telemetry, and where each data source can be starved, blinded, or bypassed.
Advanced4/5Matt Hand07 · 2011
The IDA Pro Book
Chris Eagle's deep manual on IDA Pro, the disassembler that defined a generation of reverse engineering. Useful even with Ghidra in the picture, since most malware-analysis literature still assumes IDA.
Intermediate4/5Chris Eagle08 · 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 Valois09 · 2013
The Practice of Network Security Monitoring
Richard Bejtlich's NSM playbook: how to deploy collection sensors, validate that you actually see what you think you see, and build detection workflows around open-source tools.
Intermediate5/5Richard Bejtlich10 · 2026
Le Security Operations Center au cœur de la cybersécurité
Thomas Le Bourlot, nine years into operationalizing SOCs, delivers a systemic approach to the Security Operations Center that combines technology and governance, from supervision fundamentals through cloud, AI, and SOC-as-a-service models.
Intermediate4/5Thomas Le Bourlot