// What to read next
What to read after Silence on the Wire
Where to go after Silence on the Wire, picked from our catalog. The next step up from advanced level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 2015
Sécurité informatique
A rigorous academic course on the foundations of security — cryptography, authentication, access control — with corrected exercises, from a team of well-known French and Swiss cryptographers.
Advanced4/5Gildas Avoine, Pascal Junod, Philippe Oechslin, Sylvain Pasini02 · 2023
Exercices et problèmes de cryptographie
A rigorous problem book for learning cryptography — over 150 corrected exercises with course summaries, for L3/master/engineering students — by a French academic cryptographer.
Advanced3/5Damien Vergnaud03 · 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 Forshaw04 · 2009
Les virus informatiques
The reference French academic treatment of computer virology — the theory, algorithms and practice of viruses and malicious code — by Éric Filiol, a former military cryptanalyst and one of France's leading virologists.
Advanced4/5Éric Filiol05 · 2013
Sécurité informatique
A principles-first treatment of information security for DSI, RSSI and sysadmins — architecture, cryptography, network defence and security policy — from two veteran French practitioners.
Advanced4/5Laurent Bloch, Christophe Wolfhugel06 · 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 Valois07 · 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 Stubblefield08 · 2018
Practical Binary Analysis
Dennis Andriesse on the binary toolchain you can actually script: ELF internals, dynamic taint analysis, symbolic execution and instrumentation with concrete code-along examples.
Advanced5/5Dennis Andriesse