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Information Security Books

A Leader’s Guide to Cybersecurity
by Jack Domet, Thomas J. Parenty
Review
Digital Cash
by Finn Brunton
The White Paper
by Satoshi Nakamoto
Review
The Rules of Security: Staying Safe in a Risky World
by Paul Martin
Review
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich
Review
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
by Joseph Menn
Review
Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing
by Beth Simone Noveck
Review
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
by James Griffiths
Review
The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust
by Kevin Werbach
Review
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing
Review
Dawn of the Code War: America’s Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garret M. Graff
Review
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
by James Bridle
Review
Cyber Strategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coercion
by Brandon Valeriano, Benjamin Jensen, and Ryan C. Maness
Review
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee
Review
Security without Obscurity: A Guide to Confidentiality, Authentication, and Integrity
by J. J. Stapleton
Review
Learning Malware Analysis: Explore the concepts, tools, and techniques to analyze and investigate Windows malware
by Monnappa K A
Review
Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain
by Roger Wattenhofer
Review
Malware Data Science: Attack, Detection, and Attribution
by Joshua Saxe and Hillary Sanders
Review
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind
Review
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
by Bruce Schneier
Review
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by Dermot Turing
Review
Social Media Intelligence
by Wendy W. Moe and David A. Schweidel
Review
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
by Paul Scharre
Review
Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
by Michael Chertoff
Review
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
by Matthew Salganik
Review
The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age
by David E. Sanger
Review
Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shocked the Business World
by Charles Arthur
Review
Machine Learning and Security
by Clarence Chio and David Freeman
Review
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov
Review
Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
by Susan Landau
Review
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff
Review
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
by David Gerard
Review
The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (International Edition)
by Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
Review
The Turing Guide
by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, and Robin Wilson
Review
Hacking the Hacker: Learn From the Experts Who Take Down Hackers
by Roger A. Grimes
Review
Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Review
Serious Cryptography
by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Review
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil
Review
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies
by Jason Fagone
Review
Code Girls
by Liza Mundy
Review
Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering (Scientific and Engineering Computation)
by Ian Foster and Dennis B. Gannon
Review
Borderless Behavior Analytics: Who’s Inside? What’re They Doing?
by Saryu Nayyar
Review
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution
by Andrew Mcafee, Erik Brynjolfsson
Review
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal MasterMind Behind the Silk Road
by Nick Bilton
Review
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by Fred Kaplan
Review
The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
by Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi
Review
The Car Hacking Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
by Craig Smith
Review
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott
Review
Windows Into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
by Gary T. Marx
Review
Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know About Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
by Brian W. Kernighan
Review
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies
by Gordon Corera
The Network Security Test Lab: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Michael Gregg
Review
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael Casey
Review
Alan Turing: His Work and Impact
by S. Barry Cooper and J. van Leeuwen
Review
Stream Ciphers
by Andreas Klein
Review
The Mathematics of Encryption: An Elementary Introduction
by Margaret B. Cozzens and Steven J. Miller
Review
Secret History: The Story of Cryptology
by Craig P. Bauer
Review

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