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The Cybersecurity Canon is "a list of must-read books for all cybersecurity practitioners" created and updated by Palo Alto Networks, Inc., a network and enterprise security company. You can find the full list on their website.

You have access to many of these books through the Library! To see available winning and nominated books in each category, click their covers below.

 

Titles available as eBooks

Chaos Engineering  Learn Social Engineering  Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World  Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure  Design for How People Think: Using Brain Science to Build Better Products  Digital resilience : is your company ready for the next cyber threat?  Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals  The internet of risky things : trusting the devices that surround us   Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Second Edition  Engineering Trustworthy Systems: Get Cybersecurity Design Right the First Time  Zero trust networks : building secure systems in untrusted networks   Practical Malware Analysis: A Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software   The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary   The Hardware Hacker  How to measure anything in cybersecurity risk   Advanced persistent security : a cyberwarfare approach to implementing adaptive enterprise protection, detection, and reaction strategies   Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems  Cybersecurity : Geopolitics, Law, and Policy  How to measure anything, finding the value of intangibles in business  The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Hacking, Trust and Fear Between Nations  Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk  The Psychology of Information Security  Fatal System Error The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet 

Titles available as hardcovers (see FAQ for delivery options)

American spies : modern surveillance, why you should care, and what to do about it   Black box thinking : why most people never learn from their mistakes-but some do   How America lost its secrets : Edward Snowden, the man and the theft   The perfect weapon : war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age  No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state  The fifth domain : defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats   Cult of the Dead Cow : how the original hacking supergroup might just save the world  Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II   Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II   Understanding cybersecurity : emerging governance and strategy  Click here to kill everybody : security and survival in a hyper-connected world   Abundance : the future is better than you think  Crypto : how the code rebels beat the government, saving privacy in the digital age   Blockchain revolution : how the technology behind bitcoin is changing money, business, and the world   Data and Goliath : the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world   Countdown to Zero Day : Stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon  

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