 | Mission-critical Security Planner: When Hackers Won't Take No for an Answer by Eric Greenberg
Buy new: £22.06 / Used from: £3.92 I wrote a review for this book. Required reading everyone working in security.
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 | Counter Hack: A Step by Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defences (Prentice Hall Series in Computer Networking and Distributed) by Edward Skoudis with
Buy used from: £3.22 Tells you how hackers do their stuff and how you can defend yourself
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 | Hacker's Challenge: Test Your Incident Response Skills Using 20 Scenarios by Mike Schiffman
Buy used from: £0.11 Weaves interesting stories within a sequence of hacking forensic exercises
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 | Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks, Routers and Network Intrusion Detection (Inside (New Riders)) by Stephen Northcutt
Buy used from: £14.96 Good overall guide to network perimeter protection; firewalls, IDS, routers
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 | The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick
Buy new: £13.97 / Used from: £2.91 From the master of social hacking, an implicit guide to people policies and procedures
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 | Anti-hacker Tool-kit: Key Security Tools and Configuration Techniques by Keith Jones
Buy used from: £0.01 Nice compendium of hacking tools and their uses
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 | Building Open Source Network Security Tools: Components and Techniques by Mike Schiffman
Buy new: £26.34 / Used from: £16.95 Build security tools using the author's very popular network security toolkits
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 | Hacker's Challenge 2: Test Your Network Security & Forensic Skills: Test Your Network Security and Forensic Skills: v. 2 (Hacking Exposed) by Mike Schiffman
Buy new: £25.49 / Used from: £4.80 More hackers challenge, a nice follow-on to the first book
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 | The Network Security Training Course Desktop (Video Course) by Edward Skoudis with
Buy used from: £48.02 Excellent hands-on security training kit (video, software, slides)
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 | Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, 3/e by Stuart McClure
Buy used from: £0.01 Great collection of hacker tools, techniques, and tactics.
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 | Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier
Buy used from: £1.72 A nice tell-it-like-it-is book on the security dilemma. Don't agree with it all, but it's good.
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 | Network Intrusion Detection (Voices (New Riders)) by Stephen Northcutt
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £19.94 A good book focusing on network intrusion detection signatures
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 | Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials by Warren G. Kruse II
Buy new: £21.69 / Used from: £20.34 This is a book on computer forensics. There will be more books written on the topic, but for now you can learn from those that are around such as this one.
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 | Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community by Honeynet Project The
Buy used from: £0.01 Written by a group of respectable hackers, you'll gain more insight into the hacker's mind with this book.
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 | Intrusion Detection: Network Security Beyond the Firewall by Terry Escamilla
Buy used from: £0.54 This book does a very good job of discussing important intrusion detection concepts and implementation issues.
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 | Cisco PIX Firewalls (Administering) by Richard Deal
Buy new: £31.44 / Used from: £11.89 If you configure Cisco PIX firewalls, you need a good book to help you. This one fits the bill.
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 | SSH, the Secure Shell : The Definitive Guide by Daniel Barrett
Buy used from: £0.28 If you already know about SSH and use it, you don't need this book. If not, don't leave home without it.
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 | Linux System Administration (Craig Hunt Linux Library) by V Stanfield
Buy used from: £3.77 If you touch a Linux system, your admin skills need to be keen. This is a good system admin book.
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 | Hacking Linux Exposed by James Lee
Buy used from: £3.39 Another book from the Hacking Exposed series, this one dedicated to Linux.
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 | Linux Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth
Buy used from: £2.45 More help on Linux administration, this is another admin handbook that's well-done.
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 | TCP/IP Illustrated: Protocols v. 1: The Protocols (APC) by W. Richard Stevens
Buy new: £29.97 / Used from: £15.93 You can't understand Internet security without fully grasping TCP/IP. This the classic for TCP/IP.
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 | Interconnections: Bridges and Routers (APC) by Radia Perlman
Buy new: £41.64 / Used from: £5.58 Like TCP/IP, you need to understand routing to understand network security. This is an excellent book for that.
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 | Planning for PKI: Best Practices Guide for Deploying Public Key Infrastructure (Networking Council) by Russ Housley
Buy new: £46.75 / Used from: £15.32 PKI is important for advanced security, get this book and learn how to deploy a PKI.
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 | Windows.NET Server Security Handbook by Cyrus Peikari
Buy used from: £1.29 If you do anything with Windows .Net, make sure you secure it. Read this book.
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 | Programming Windows Security: The Developers Guide (DevelopMentor) by Keith Brown
Buy new: £30.99 / Used from: £11.99 If you program in Windows or review the progams of others, this book will help you understand the security implications and next steps.
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