// What to read next
What to read after Network Security Through Data Analysis
Where to go after Network Security Through Data Analysis, picked from our catalog. The next step up from intermediate level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 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 Valois02 · 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 Bejtlich03 · 2013
Applied Network Security Monitoring
A practitioner's walkthrough of building an NSM capability end to end, from deciding what to collect through detection and the analysis workflow that ties it together. The tooling is dated, but the way it teaches you to think about monitoring is not.
Intermediate4/5Chris Sanders, Jason Smith04 · 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 Pernet05 · 2007
Linux Firewalls
Michael Rash, author of psad and fwsnort, on building and operating Linux-native packet filtering and intrusion-response tooling. Pre-nftables in detail but conceptually durable.
Intermediate4/5Michael Rash06 · 2017
Zero Trust Networks
Evan Gilman and Doug Barth's pre-marketing-bubble treatment of zero-trust architecture — what it is when you actually implement it (trust evaluation, device identity, dynamic policy) versus what the vendor pitch turned it into.
Intermediate4/5Evan Gilman, Doug Barth07 · 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 Forshaw08 · 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 Stubblefield