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Ask HN: Up to date network security books
5 points by pipedreams2 4066 days ago
I recently came across a stack of free older books on network security:

  Cryptography and Network Security - William Stallings
  Network Security Foundations - Matthew Strebe
  Counter Hack - Ed Skoudis
I am fairly new to the world of network security, but as a developer am interested in learning more. I'm guessing much of the foundational stuff in these books is still mostly relevant but was wondering if anyone can suggest any newer up to date books in a similar vein?
3 comments

Peter Gutmann's "Engineering Security" book is an excellent treatise on trust and currently free: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf
TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1: The Protocols

$ man tcpdump

I would take this question to reddit/r/netsec