Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners

I have used this book twice as a text for my course, CSSS5130, "Cybersecurity Intelligence and Counterintelligence". This is part of the Master of Science in Cybersecurity at Webster University.I like the book for several reasons:1. It is inexpensive and compact.2. It is very readable.3. The material is well-organized.4. It is *very* current.5. It recounts numerous real-world events, giving specific information, to illustrate the concepts being presented.6. It fills in technical background needed to understand the material without breaking the flow of the presentation.7. It does not assume that the reader is a programmer or web developer; it is a book written for MIS people, SYSAdmins, Security folks (e.g., SISO's), and managers.8. The material it presents is important and relevant to the modern security challenge.

The book was used but I didn't mind a few extra hilights in the book. Its all about the knowledge.

I really couldn't stand this book when I had to use it for an upper-level university class. To be fair, the authors seem to be extremely knowledgeable on the topic, but the presentation of the information, overall, was pretty lackluster.The grammar was actually pretty bad/confusing in places, and I sometimes found myself reading sentences multiple times to try to understand what the authors were attempting to convey. The summaries at the end of each chapter were also pretty useless. Instead of discussing the important information and facts to take away from each chapter (e.g., describing the most important cyber laws discussed, the relevant events, etc.), the authors gave a superficial list of the topics contained in the chapter, without details (e.g. "we talked about this, and this, and then this"), making the summaries pretty useless if you wanted a refresher on the important information contained within the chapter after you've read it. The glossary was also pretty sparse, making it difficult to go back and find specific information.

These guys really know their stuff, and this book is stuffed full of information, some of which you won't get anywhere else, but at the end of the day it is dry and occasionally pointless. They offer a good framework for understanding cyber offense and defense, and crucially, SHOW NON-ENGINEERS HOW TO GET STARTED AS HACKERS, which is brilliant But they spend half the book listing things like the different policies of various gov'ts and organizations, in language that is (necessarily) vague, and I would often read a chapter and ask myself what I actually learned. I would give the first 4-5 chapters 4 stars or more, but the whole book only earns a 3.

This is a good, solid treatise on many aspects of cyber warfare from a fairly high and non-technical level. Where the authors do delve in to the technical, they offer reasonably good explanations, although if you know it, it may seem clear when it's not! This book is not part of the Cyber Canon as blogged by Rick Howard (Palo Alto Networks), but he did tell me that the book was good, although he prefers Richard Clarke's--next on my list to read.

I am going to keep this simple and short due to typing on my iPad. I work in the military and security field and I can say is spot on and is very enlightening. I have only read 20 pages and I can already tell this is a great book for any security professionals. May be difficult for new readers, but dedication to cyber security is the key to reading this book. Ignore the reviewer who bashed about spelling and etc; no issues that I see. (Background: CISSP, CCNP-S, CEH and CFHI)

Awesome guide and accessible to those with a passing or deeper knowledge if IT or INFOSEC. This book is a clearly written and comprehensive overview that was easy to read from cover-to-cover. While it won't make you an instant expert, it will "make you smart, fast" and has dozens of extremely valuable insights that often come at great expense if you have to learn them the old-fashioned way.

This is a great book with a lot of information. It could use a good editing, though. Needs more commas!!

think this book could of contained more the content was not as good as i expected but did give me a few theories

Good read but Author didn't know what NATO stood for but I can forgive that as its a good read

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