// Prerequisites
What to read before Kubernetes Security and Observability
If Kubernetes Security and Observability feels too steep at advanced level, here is what to read first. Lighter books in the same topics that build the prerequisites this one assumes.
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 · 2018
Pentesting Azure Applications
Matt Burrough on attacker behaviour against Azure tenants: identity, storage, VMs, key material handling, and the recon paths that work against real subscriptions.
Intermediate3/5Matt Burrough05 · 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 Kohnfelder06 · 2024
Extreme Privacy
Michael Bazzell's defender-side companion to OSINT Techniques: a step-by-step program for removing yourself from data brokers, public records, and the everyday surveillance economy without going off-grid.
Intermediate5/5Michael Bazzell07 · 2008
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
A from-first-principles tour of low-level exploitation that still teaches the mindset two decades later.
Intermediate5/5Jon Erickson08 · 2024
OSINT Techniques
Michael Bazzell's relentlessly updated technical manual for finding people, accounts, breach data, geolocation evidence, and online identifiers — the de facto reference of the modern OSINT field.
Intermediate5/5Michael Bazzell