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Alternatives to La norme ISO/IEC 27005
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to La norme ISO/IEC 27005. If La norme ISO/IEC 27005 is the wrong fit at intermediate level, start here.
01 · 2024
Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises
Two veteran security consultants walk through planning, running, and following up on tabletop exercises, from technical incident-response drills to executive-level and cross-functional scenarios.
Intermediate4/5Robert Lelewski, John Hollenberger02 · 2023
Cybercriminalité
Solange Ghernaouti's structured treatment of cybercrime — how it works, how to prevent it, how to respond — spanning technical, legal and organisational angles.
Intermediate3/5Solange Ghernaouti03 · 2019
The Pragmatic Programmer
Thomas and Hunt's career-defining set of practical heuristics for writing software professionally — orthogonality, broken-windows, DRY, tracer bullets, and the underlying argument that craftsmanship is a posture, not a process.
Beginner5/5David Thomas, Andrew Hunt04 · 2026
Maîtriser la cryptographie d'aujourd'hui et de demain
A cryptography engineer specializing in information-system security mechanisms, who also teaches the subject, builds from cryptography's mathematical foundations up to today's post-quantum standards.
Intermediate4/5Mbaye Ngom05 · 2018
Social Engineering
Christopher Hadnagy's broad procedural reference on social engineering as a discipline — recon, pretexting, elicitation, microexpressions, and the structured engagement model his consultancy operationalized.
Intermediate4/5Christopher Hadnagy06 · 2018
Click Here to Kill Everybody
Bruce Schneier's policy-level argument that as everything becomes a computer (cars, medical devices, infrastructure, voting), the security failures that used to merely cost us money will start costing lives — and the regulatory shape of that future is being decided now.
Beginner4/5Bruce Schneier07 · 2005
Reversing
The book that taught a generation how software actually looks once you strip away the source. Still the clearest on-ramp to thinking in assembly, even with dated tools.
Intermediate4/5Eldad Eilam08 · 2010
Understanding Cryptography
A genuinely teachable intro to modern cryptography that derives the math instead of hand-waving it, covering symmetric and public-key primitives without drowning you in proofs.
Intermediate4/5Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl09 · 2021
RGPD et droit des données personnelles
A complete French manual on data-protection law under the GDPR and the 2018 loi Informatique et Libertés — obligations, rights and how to comply — by an engineer and doctor of law.
Intermediate3/5Fabrice Mattatia10 · 2015
La cybersécurité
A pocket-sized primer on cybersecurity as a societal and geopolitical issue — threats, actors, stakes and policy — in the classic French “Que sais-je ?” format.
Beginner3/5Nicolas Arpagian