TLDR; Tribe of Hackers

TLDR; offers you an opportunity to preview books relevant to our field. Usually, I try to cover a single book and give a brief overview. However, some books are so good that I end up reading the entire series. Posts like this should be like skirts: long enough to cover everything but still short enough to keep interest.

I read Tribe of Hackers, Tribe of Hackers Red Team and Tribe of Hackers Blue Team, which are relevant to my career aspirations. There are also Tribe of Hackers Security Leaders and Hackers Inc. Hence, this review is really for the first three.

Tribal knowledge is passed down from generation to generation. The suits are afraid of it, as it empowers individual staff at the cost of the organization. A typical (and correct) corporate practice is to document and train staff to share the knowledge, which really benefits the company.

The authors sat down and interviewed different people in the cyber security field with a short list of relevant questions. "If there is one myth that you could debunk in cybersecurity, what would it be?" "What is one of the the biggest bang-for-the-buck actions that an organization can take to improve its cybersecurty posture?" He is posing these to an exotic group, like Daniel Crowley from X-Force Red, or Diedre Diamond, from CyberSN.

Marcus has an interesting background himself. He worked in the US Navy, the NSA and then founded a cybersecurity firm.. He lends himself to the beginning of each book, answering the same questions.

For those who are working in any flavor of cyber security, these are 9.5/10 or 10/10. For those who are not but still in industrial automation, I recommend at least reading the Blue Team book- it would rank as a 7/10 the least!

Marcus Carey and Jennifer Jin have a series of delightful books