Sécurité informatique - Ethical Hacking
Apprendre l'attaque pour mieux se défendre · 6e édition
The French-language reference for offensive security: a thick, lab-heavy tour of the attacker's toolkit, maintained across editions by the ACISSI collective under the motto “learn the attack to better defend.”
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- Authors
- ACISSI
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- Éditions ENI
- Pages
- 888
- Edition
- 6e édition
- Language
- French
Read this if
French-speaking students and aspiring pentesters who want one comprehensive offensive-security manual: reconnaissance, network and web attacks, social engineering, forensics and Metasploit, all hands-on. The closest French equivalent to the English pentest canon.
Skip this if
Advanced practitioners who already work in English and live in PortSwigger Academy and current tooling. The breadth means each topic is an introduction rather than a deep dive, and editions lag the fastest-moving tradecraft.
Key takeaways
- The single most complete offensive-security book in French — breadth is the selling point, covering recon through forensics in one volume.
- Every chapter is exercise-driven; treated as a workbook with a lab VM it teaches well, read passively it teaches little.
- Multi-author and re-edited regularly, so quality is uneven chapter to chapter but currency beats most French tech books.
Notes
The default French-language entry point into offensive security, and the book most French ethical-hacking courses are built around. Pair it with PortSwigger Academy and HackTheBox for the live, current tradecraft the printed page can't keep up with.
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