// What to read next
What to read after Social Engineering
Where to go after Social Engineering, picked from our catalog. The next step up from intermediate level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 2005
Silence on the Wire
Michal Zalewski's classic on the indirect attack surface: timing channels, protocol-stack fingerprinting, and the often-overlooked side data leaked by every layer of a stack.
Advanced5/5Michal Zalewski02 · 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 Filiol03 · 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 Pasini04 · 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 Wolfhugel05 · 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 Vergnaud06 · 2002
The Art of Deception
Kevin Mitnick and William Simon's case-study collection of social-engineering attacks: PBX scams, helpdesk impersonation, dumpster-diving, the casual lies that sound true. The technology dates the book; the human side is timeless.
Beginner4/5Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon07 · 2022
Cybersécurité
Solange Ghernaouti's broad academic survey of cybersecurity — risk analysis, governance, technical and legal dimensions — the standard French university reference, now in its 7th edition.
Intermediate4/5Solange Ghernaouti08 · 1998
La science du secret
A lucid popular-science history of cryptography by Jacques Stern, one of France's most eminent cryptographers — from classical ciphers to public-key and the science of secrecy.
Intermediate4/5Jacques Stern