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Best Incident Response books
3 books in our catalog cover Incident Response, ranked by rating. Each entry is an opinionated review with who the book is for and who should skip it.
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Read the full editorial pick: the best Incident Response books in 2026, ranked and reviewed.→
01 · 2014
The Art of Memory Forensics
Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory
Ligh, Case, Levy, and Walters' canonical reference on memory analysis with Volatility — the technique, the tooling, and the operating-system internals it depends on, across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Advanced5/5Michael Hale Ligh, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy, AAron Walters02 · 2023
Intelligence-Driven Incident Response
Outwitting the Adversary
A practitioner's guide to wiring threat intelligence into the incident response loop, built around the F3EAD cycle rather than tool-of-the-week tutorials.
Intermediate4/5Scott J. Roberts, Rebekah Brown03 · 2014
Incident Response and Computer Forensics
Luttgens, Pepe, and Mandia's working playbook for running an enterprise IR engagement: pre-engagement readiness, evidence acquisition, network and host forensics, and the project-management discipline that separates a controlled response from a panic.
Intermediate4/5Jason T. Luttgens, Matthew Pepe, Kevin Mandia