 | Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £5.00 Compulsory reading for anyone in IT, and not just the security side of things.
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 | Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier
Buy new: £14.39 / Used from: £7.45 Again an essential read from Schneider.
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 | Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security by Yanek Korff
Buy new: £26.95 / Used from: £19.93 FreeBSD is a damn good OS and secure oob, but anybody running it in a secure environment should read this book.
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 | BSD Hacks: 100 Industrial Tip & Tools by Dru Lavigne
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £10.00 ... and this one. Though it is more related to admin tasks.... No matter how much you think you know FreeBSD some of these tips will be essential.
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 | Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy E. Denning
Buy new: £27.19 / Used from: £15.49 An old book but still very relevant.
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 | Crypto: Secrecy and Privacy in the New Cold War (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Levy
Buy used from: £0.45 Fascinating insight into the early roots of cryptography (and how the brits actually invented asymmetric encryption first).
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 | TCP/IP Illustrated: Protocols v. 1: The Protocols (APC) by W. Richard Stevens
Buy new: £28.96 / Used from: £23.00 The bible of networking.
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 | Masters of Deception: the Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Michele Slatalla
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £1.89 An entertaining read.
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 | SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide by Daniel Barrett
Buy new: £17.23 / Used from: £21.30 Any network engineer should know ssh inside out.
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 | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
Buy new: £7.63 / Used from: £4.02 A great page turner.
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 | CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide (All-in-one S.) by Shon Harris
Buy used from: £5.00 A huge book but worth getting through.
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 | DNS and BIND by Cricket Liu
Buy new: £22.05 / Used from: £21.74 If you have anything to do with DNS, read this book.
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 | Mastering Regular Expressions (Nutshell Handbooks) by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
Buy used from: £21.73 Once you have them cracked they make life so much easier.
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 | Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms and Source Code in C by Bruce Schneier
Buy new: £24.67 / Used from: £17.00 Heavy going if you don't have a maths degree, but worth sticking with.
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 | Hacking Exposed 5th Edition: Network Security Secrets & Solutions: Network Security Secrets and Solutions by Stuart Mcclure
Buy new: £25.64 / Used from: £6.00 Each book I have read in this series has been very informative.
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 | Boo Hoo: A Dot Com Story by Ernst Malmsten
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £0.01 If you are involved in IT and business you should read how NOT to do things.
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