Cobb's Guide to PC and LAN Security: This is the free digital edition of the 700-page book that started life as the Stephen Cobb Complete Guide to PC and LAN Security, published by McGraw-Hill in 1992. That book was heavily revised to become the NCSA Guide to PC and LAN Security in 1995. In 2000, the rights to the book reverted to me and became part of a print-on-demand program at Amazon, where you can still buy a copy today.
However, you may not want to buy the actual book because, a) it is technically very dated, and b) it is free to download here from these three links. Has had over 100,000 online reads in the last 25 years.
Chapter1. Security Matters
Chapter 2. Security Solutions
Chapter 3. Security Planning
Chapter 4. Secure Hardware
Chapter 5. Secure Power
Chapter 6. Secure Sites
Chapter 7. Secure Access
Chapter 8. Secure Data
Chapter 9. Secure Code
Chapter 10. Secure Software
Chapter 11. Secure Networks I
Chapter 12. Secure Networks II
Chapter 13. Secure Communications
Chapter 14. Secure People
Chapter 15. Security in the Future
Appendix A. Threat List
Appendix B. A Brief Guide to Batch Files
Appendix C. Computer Security Policy
Appendix D. Notes on Electromagnetic Radiation
Appendix E. Export Restrictions on Encryption
Appendix F. Further Resources
Appendix G. Online Glossary
Appendix H. How Public-Key Encryption Works
Appendix K. Appraising Microsoft AV
Getting to know CISOs: Research into assumptions about closing the cybersecurity skills gap, including a deep dive into what it takes to be a good CISO. Eighty pages on everything from aptitude to certification, degrees, and critical skills: Security and Risk Management masters' degree dissertation.
Cybersecurity training and awareness, resources for educators:
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/05/21/cybersecurity-training-awareness-resources-educators/
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 31 articles, one for each day of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October)
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/05/21/cybersecurity-training-awareness-resources-educators/
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 31 articles, one for each day of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October)
Cybercrime metrics, law journal article: Advancing Accurate and Objective Cybercrime Metrics in the Journal of National Security Law & Policy (Center on National Security, Georgetown Law)
Cybercrime policy issues: a 2010 collection of vendor-neutral articles and studies:
https://www.thirdway.org/series/third-way-cyber-enforcement-initiative
Public attitudes to cybersecurity and cybercrime in the US a report based on EU-style barometer survey.
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/01/24/cybersecurity-barometer-shows-impact-privacy-security/
Building automation system security and siegeware, article contains a good list of resources:
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/02/20/siegeware-when-criminals-take-over-your-smart-building/
Women creating infosec career opportunities, a website and book:
Secure the InfoSec Bag: Six Figure Career Guide for Women in Security
(I've heard Keirsten speak on this: great advice, and strategies I'd never thought of.)
More to come...
https://www.thirdway.org/series/third-way-cyber-enforcement-initiative
Public attitudes to cybersecurity and cybercrime in the US a report based on EU-style barometer survey.
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/01/24/cybersecurity-barometer-shows-impact-privacy-security/
Building automation system security and siegeware, article contains a good list of resources:
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/02/20/siegeware-when-criminals-take-over-your-smart-building/
Women creating infosec career opportunities, a website and book:
Secure the InfoSec Bag: Six Figure Career Guide for Women in Security
(I've heard Keirsten speak on this: great advice, and strategies I'd never thought of.)
More to come...
