📚 InfoSec Books for End-of-Year Gifts List 🦃 🎅🏻

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• Week 07: Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as L0pht Changed the World, by Cris Thomas

• Week 09: A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back, by Bruce Schneier

• Week 10: Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption, by Erica Stanford

• Week 11: Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, by Adam Shostack

• Week 12: Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems, by Kelly Shortridge

• Week 13: Wireless Security Architecture: Designing and Maintaining Secure Wireless for Enterprise, by Jennifer (JJ) Minella

• Week 14: Thinking Security: Stopping Next Year's Hackers, by Steven M. Bellovin

• Week 15: Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars, by Adam Shostack

• Week 16: Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software, by Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig

• Week 17: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, by Nicole Perlroth

• Week 19: The Pentester BluePrint: Starting a Career as an Ethical Hacker, by Phillip Wylie, Kim Crawley

• Week 20: PowerShell Automation and Scripting for CyberSecurity: Hacking and Defense for Red and Blue Teamers, by Miriam C. Wiesner

• Week 21: Cyber Defense Matrix: The Essential Guide to Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape, by Sounil Yu

• Week 22: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks, by Scott J. Shapiro

• Week 23: Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World, by Joseph Menn

• Week 24: The Cyber Effect: An Expert in Cyberpsychology Explains How Technology Is Shaping Our Children, Our Behavior, and Our Values — and What We Can Do About It, by Mary Aiken

• Week 25: Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon, by Kim Zetter

• Week 26: Alice and Bob Learn Application Security, by Tanya Janca

• Week 27: Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data, by Micah Lee

• Week 28: Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security, by Michael McLaughlin, Bill Holstein

• Week 29: Leadership Is Changing the Game - The Transition from Technical Expert to Leader, by Brian Donovan

• Week 30: Evading EDR: A Comprehensive Guide to Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems, by Matt Hand

• Week 31: Evading EDR: A Comprehensive Guide to Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems, by Matt Hand

• Week 31: Art of Software Security Assessment, The: Identifying and Preventing Software Vulnerabilities, by Mark Dowd, John McDonald, Justin Schuh

• Week 32: Visual Threat Intelligence: An Illustrated Guide For Threat Researchers, by Thomas Roccia

• Week 33: The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, by Clifford Stoll

• Week 34: Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, by Bruce Schneier 

• Week 35: Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime―from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door, by Brian Krebs

• Week 36: Blue Team Handbook: SOC, SIEM, and Threat Hunting (V1.02): A Condensed Guide for the Security Operations Team and Threat Hunter, by Don Murdoch

• Week 37: Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear, by Michael Bazzell

• Week 38: Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It, by Marc Goodman

• Week 39: Philosophy of Cybersecurity, by Lukasz Olejnik, Artur Kurasiński

• Week 40: 8 Steps to Better Security: A Simple Cyber Resilience Guide for Business, by Kim Crawley

• Week 41: The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware, by Andrew "bunnie" Huang

• Week 42: RTFM: Red Team Field Manual v2, by Ben Clark, Nick Downer

• Week 43: Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World, by Bruce Schneier

• Week 44: Permanent Record, by Edward Snowden

• Week 45: How the F*ck Did This Happen?: A guide for executives who need to understand Cyber Security in plain, actionable language, by Darryl Carlton

• Week 46: Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World, by Jennifer Jin and Marcus J. Carey

• Week 47: How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places, by FC a.k.a. Freakyclown

• Week 48: Effective Vulnerability Management: Managing Risk in the Vulnerable Digital Ecosystem, by Chris Hughes and Nikki Robinson