Best cybersecurity books from 2013

The Practice of Network Security Monitoring

Understanding Incident Detection and Response

Richard Bejtlich's NSM playbook: how to deploy collection sensors, validate that you actually see what you think you see, and build detection workflows around open-source tools.

Applied Network Security Monitoring

Collection, Detection, and Analysis

A practitioner's walkthrough of building an NSM capability end to end, from deciding what to collect through detection and the analysis workflow that ties it together. The tooling is dated, but the way it teaches you to think about monitoring is not.

Hackers

Au cœur de la résistance numérique

A journalist's investigation into the hacker culture of digital resistance — Anonymous, WikiLeaks, Telecomix, the Chaos Computer Club — and the politics of a free Internet.

Sécurité informatique

Principes et méthodes à l'usage des DSI, RSSI et administrateurs

A principles-first treatment of information security for DSI, RSSI and sysadmins — architecture, cryptography, network defence and security policy — from two veteran French practitioners.

Hacking

Un labo virtuel pour auditer et mettre en place des contre-mesures

A hands-on French guide to building a virtual lab (Proxmox) and using it to audit application, web and system flaws — then implement countermeasures.

La cyberstratégie russe

A focused study of Russia's approach to cyberspace — doctrine, actors and information warfare — one of the few French-language books dedicated to a single state's cyberstrategy.

Le cyberespace

Nouveau domaine de la pensée stratégique

A collective volume from a French military-strategic colloquium arguing that cyberspace is a genuine new domain of strategic thought — short, dense, and foundational to the French school.