// What to read next
What to read after Kubernetes Security and Observability
Where to go after Kubernetes Security and Observability, picked from our catalog. The next step up from advanced level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 2020
Container Security
Liz Rice's first-principles introduction to how Linux containers actually work — namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp, image layering — and the security implications that fall out of those mechanics.
Intermediate4/5Liz Rice02 · 2021
Hacking Kubernetes
A threat-modeling tour of a Kubernetes cluster, component by component, that teaches you to harden defaults by first showing you how each one gets broken.
Intermediate4/5Andrew Martin, Michael Hausenblas03 · 2018
Kubernetes Security
Liz Rice and Michael Hausenblas's freely-available O'Reilly short on the Kubernetes-specific security model: API server, RBAC, network policy, secrets, and the typical hardening steps that move a cluster from default to defensible.
Intermediate4/5Liz Rice, Michael Hausenblas04 · 2017
Attacking Network Protocols
James Forshaw, Project Zero veteran, on how to capture, parse, and break protocols from the wire up to the application layer, with a strong focus on building reusable analysis tooling.
Advanced5/5James Forshaw05 · 2020
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Google's site-reliability and security teams jointly write down what it actually takes to build systems that are both safe and dependable, from threat models and design reviews to rollback culture and crisis response.
Advanced5/5Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Adam Stubblefield06 · 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 Andriesse07 · 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 Rinehart08 · 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 Anderson