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by gentleman11 2258 days ago
Are these books suitable for a software engineer who is new to security, or is it an advanced text with pre-reqs?
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Particularly the "Building Secure and Reliable Systems" is targeted to software engineers. Copy/paste from the preface: "Because security and reliability are everyone’s responsibility, we’re targeting a broad audience: people who design, implement, and maintain systems. We’re challenging the dividing lines between the traditional professional roles of developers, architects, SREs, systems administrators, and security engineers. While we’ll dive deeply into some subjects that might be more relevant to experienced engineers, we invite you—the reader — to try on different hats as you move through the chapters, imagining yourself in roles you (currently) don’t have and thinking about how you could improve your systems."

(Book author here)

This book should be suitable for software engineers without security background. There are some sections that might require some knowledge but they are explicitly marked as Deep Dive.

(disclaimer: I worked on the book)