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Alternatives to The Practice of Network Security Monitoring
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to The Practice of Network Security Monitoring. If The Practice of Network Security Monitoring is the wrong fit at intermediate level, start here.
01 · 2017
Network Security Through Data Analysis
Michael Collins on building situational awareness from network telemetry: collection architecture, statistical baseline-setting, and the analytic patterns that turn raw flows into detection.
Intermediate4/5Michael Collins02 · 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 Smith03 · 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 Valois04 · 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 Barth05 · 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
Practical Packet Analysis
Chris Sanders' working manual for Wireshark, geared at troubleshooting and incident response rather than abstract protocol theory. Updated for Wireshark 2.x.
Beginner4/5Chris Sanders07 · 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 Pernet08 · 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 Kohnfelder09 · 2014
Threat Modeling
Adam Shostack's practitioner-oriented introduction to threat modeling: STRIDE, attack trees, and how to fit the practice into a real software-development lifecycle.
Intermediate5/5Adam Shostack10 · 2012
Practical Malware Analysis
Still the gold standard textbook for static and dynamic malware analysis on Windows.
Intermediate5/5Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig