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S3E5 Cyber Security Grey Beard Information Security Book Reviews

08/18/21 • 21 min

Book reviews of four cyber security books published between 2019-2020. Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State by Barton Gellman 2020, The Hacker and The State by Ben Buchanan, 2020, Sandworm by Andy Greenberg, 2019 and The Coming Cyber War by Marc Crudgington, 2020. These books provide great insight to where we are in the cyber security profession. They discuss history, technology, and attacks. Cyber security professionals need to understand the threat landscape. These books all help with that in their own way.

Dark Mirror: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-mirror-barton-gellman/1122928803?ean=9780143110477
Hacker and The State: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hacker-and-the-state-ben-buchanan/1132885872?ean=9780674987555
Sandworm: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sandworm-andy-greenberg/1129288539?ean=9780525564638
The Coming Cyber War: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-coming-cyber-war-marc-crudgington/1137913105?ean=9781735916309
PRISM: https://www.masslive.com/politics/2013/06
codename_prism_secret_program_data_mining.html
Shadow Brokers: https://darkwebjournal.com/shadow-brokers/
Stuxnet: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3218104/what-is-stuxnet-who-created-it-and-how-does-it-work.html
Wiper: https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2019/oct/25/invisible-us-iran-cyber-war
Fancy Bear: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/who-is-fancy-bear/
Sandworm: https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/apt-sandworm-notpetya-technical-overview/
Gucifer: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/romanian-hacker-guccifer-sentenced-52-months-prison-computer-hacking-crimes
Eternal Blue: https://www.cisecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Security-Primer-EternalBlue.pdf
Sands Casino Hack: https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/27/technology/security/iran-hack-casino/index.html
DNC Hack: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/russians-hack-the-dnc-a-timeline/65-bd1326a7-7ed5-4cd7-92a3-63eed75f1bd9

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Discussion on cyber security certifications. Which make sense. Where to focus. How to proceed. I cover certifications from GIAC, ISC2, ISACA, EC-Council, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, CompTIA, and others.
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ISC2: https://www.isc2.org/
ISACA: https://www.isaca.org/
Offensive Security: https://www.offensive-security.com
EC-Council: https://cert.eccouncil.org/
GIAC: https://www.giac.org/
GIAC Roadmap: https://www.giac.org/certifications/get-certified/roadmap
AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/certification/
12 MS Azure certifications https://cloudacademy.com/blog/microsoft-azure-certifications-which-is-right-for-you-and-your-team/
Google Cloud Certifications: https://cloud.google.com/certification/
SANS: https://www.sans.org/
Infosec Institute: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/
UDEMY: https://www.udemy.com/
Cloud Academy: https://cloudacademy.com/