Beyond the Blog
I'm thinking about writing a book.
Obviously, there are a lot of networking books on the market today. Search for any mainstream certification on Amazon and you'll find titles from half a dozen publishers. The majority of these are oriented toward specific vendors (most commonly Cisco) and many parallel a given certification exam. These books are overall pretty great. Most of them.
There also exists a minority of books which cover topics outside of the vendor-driven mainstream, like Gary A. Donahue's Network Warrior published by O'Reilly, now in its second edition. I love this kind of independent title because its content isn't constrained to a particular mold. The author finds stuff he thinks is relevant and interesting, and he writes about it. This is the correct way to write a book.
But over the past few years it has become painfully evident to me that there are many areas of this field we simply don't talk about in print, at least not at the entry level where perhaps it would be most helpful. If you want a thirty-page lecture on subnetting or a terrible mnemonic for the OSI model, pick any CCNA book from the pile and you're good to Continue reading
Last week, I spent a the majority of my commute time listening to a cybercrime novel by Mark Russinovich. This book, Trojan Horse, is the second of three books in the Jeff Aiken Novel series and didn’t disappoint in any way. In the past I read the electronic version of the first book, Zero Day. Whether or not you work in information security, you’ll likely find these books enjoyable. Having some grasp of the reach and dependance on information systems, I find these books are reasonably plausible. I plan to listen to the final installment in the series during my travels this week.