The Four Books that every cyber security expert should read
Can you be a cyber security expert without knowing the fundamentals and history of cybersecurity?
What will be the next life changing event in Cybersecurity? Will you be able to help prevent it or will you be the one to help clean up afterwards?
The cyber wars started 50 years ago and who knows how it will end?
Have all the easy problems in Cyber been solved and the next generation will be faced with an onslaught of Unknown Unknowns?
Others faced the unknowns and they succeeded. Will you be ready?
These four non-technical books (plus a Bonus Pamphlet) might make you reconsider your heavy reliance on technology and recognize the basic principles employed by those that came before you and ponder the hypothesized future.
.. NBS/ACM 1974 Executive Guide to Computer Security. (Bonus Pamphlet)
1. The Cuckoo’s Egg. The true adventure of Cliff Stoll creating forensics and cybersecurity infrastructure on the fly and from scratch in the 1980s
2. The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes. What happened at Bletchley Park by one of the co-inventors of traffic analysis.
3. The Fifth Domain by Richard A. Clarke. An outline for how to defend our national infrastructure and online economy from an attack, written from the perspective of using military defense strategies.
4. One Second After. What the world might look like the first year after an attack on our national infrastructure and online economy.