// What to read next
What to read after The Pragmatic Programmer
Where to go after The Pragmatic Programmer, picked from our catalog. The next step up from beginner level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 2025
La norme ISO/IEC 27005
A three-part guide to the ISO/IEC 27005:2022 standard, running from information-security governance foundations to the detail of every risk-management process, with fictional case studies to practice against.
Intermediate4/5Jean-Charles Pons02 · 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 Ngom03 · 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 Eilam04 · 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 Hadnagy05 · 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 Pelzl06 · 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 Ghernaouti07 · 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 Hollenberger08 · 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