Reading List

Lifelong learning is a staple for remaining relevant in the information security career field and is essential for sustaining professional growth. One way that I continue to grow is through reading. I have consumed books in many forms, using E-Readers, listening to audiobooks, and reading traditional paperbacks. Each of those mediums have their advantages and disadvantages, but in the end, they helped me expand my mind beyond traditional education and personal experiences. 

Many books that I have read were recommended to me from other leaders' reading lists. It can be hard to sift through the expansive offering of written material, so below I provide a collection of books that I have found influential in my career. The list is a work in progress and will continue to grow as I reflect back on the lessons I have learned from literature along my professional journey. 



Information Security / Cyber Warfare /Information Environment

  • Cybersecurity First Principles | A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics -- Rick Howard
  • Data Science in Cybersecurity and Cyberthreat Intelligence -- Edited by: Leslie F. Sikos & Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
  • Making Knowledge Management Clickable -- Joseph Hilger & Zachary Wahl
  • Competing in the Age of AI | Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World -- Marco Iansiti & Kamir R. Lakhani
  • Dark Territory -- Fred Kaplan
  • This is How They Tell Me The World Ends -- Nicole Perloth
  • Countdown to Zero Day -- Kim Zetter
  • Active Measures -- Thomas Rid

Leadership

  • Seeing the Big Picture | Business acumen to build your credibility, career, and company -- Kevin Cope
  • Four Thousand Weeks | Time Management for Mortals -- Oliver Burkenman
  • Start With Why -- Simon Sinek
  • The Starfish and the Spider --  Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom
  • What Got You Here Won't Get You There -- Marshall Goldsmith & Mark reiter
  • Team of Teams -- General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman & Chris Fussell
  • Leaders Eat Last --Simon Sinek
  • The Mission, the Men, and Me -- Pete Blaber
  • The Infinite Game -- Simon Sinek
  • Finite and Infinite Games -- James Carse
  • The Man Who Broke Capitalism -- David Gelles
  • Playing to the Edge -- Michael V. Hayden
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People -- Stephen R. Covey

Cognitive Science / Thought Processes

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow -- Daniel Kahneman
  • Algorithms to Live By | The Computer Science of Human Decisions -- Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
  • Thinking in Systems -- Donella H. Meadows

Geo-Political Nexus to Threat Intelligence

  • Great Power Cyber Competition | Competing and Winning in the Information Environment --  Edited by: David V. Gioe & Margaret W. Smith 
  • The Return to Great Power Rivalry --  Matthew Kroenig
  • The Avoidable War -- Kevin Rudd

Functional Skills Development / Test Resources

  • Math for Security | From Graphs and Geometry to Spatial Analysis -- Daniel Reilly
  • HBR Guide to Better Business Writing -- Bryan A. Garner
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Public Speaking and Presenting -- Various Authors
  • 11 Hour CISSP® Study Guide -- Eric Conrad, Seth Misenar & Joshua Feldman
  • All-In-One CISSP® Exam Guide -- Fernando Maymi & Shon Harris
  • ISC2 CISSP® Official Study Guide | Tenth Edition -- Mike Chapple, James Michael Stewart, Darril Gibson 
  • ISC2 CISSP® Official Practice Tests | Fourth Edition 

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