Resources - books

General Computer Security

Atkins, Derek. Internet Security: Professional Reference. New Riders Press, 1997.
Garfinkel, Simson and E. H. Spafford. Practical UNIX and Internet Security. O'Reilly and Associates, 1996.
Gollmann, Dieter. Computer Security. John Wiley & Son Ltd, 1999.
Jumes, James and Coopers and Lybrand. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Security, Audit, and Control. Microsoft Press, 1998.
Kaufman, Charlie, R. Perlman, M. Speciner, C. Kaufman. Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World. Prentice Hall, 2002.
Mann, Scott, E. L. Mitchell. Linux System Security: The Administrator's Guide to Open Source Security Tools. Prentice Hall, 1999.
Pfleeger, Charles P. Security in Computing. Prentice Hall, 2002.
Pipkin, Donald, Donald L. Pipkin. Information Security: Protecting the Global Enterprise. Prentice Hall, 2000.
Pooch, Udo and Gregory White. Computer System and Network Security. CRC Press, 1995.
Russell, Deborah. Computer Security Basics. O’Reilly and Associates, 1991.

Intrusion Detection

Amoroso, Edward G. Intrusion Detection: An Introduction to Internet Surveillance, Correlation, Trace Back, Traps, and Response. Intrusion.net Books, febrero de 1999.
Bace, Rebecca. Intrusion Detection. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 2000.
Caswell, Brian , Jay Beale, James C. Foster, Jeremy Faircloth. Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection. Syngress, 2003.
Escamilla, Terry. Intrusion Detection: Network Security Beyond the Firewall. John Wiley and Sons, 1998.
Freiss, Martin and R. Bach. Protecting Networks with Satan: Internet Security for System Administrators. O'Reilly and Associates, 1998.
Lance Spitzner. Honeypots: Tracking Hackers. Addison Wesley Professional, 2002.
Murray, James D. and D. Russell (ed.). Windows NT Event Logging. O'Reilly and Associates, 1998.
Northcutt, Stephen. Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts' Handbook. Que, 1999.
Northcutt, Stephen and Judy Novak. Network Intrusion Detection. Que, 2002.
Northcutt, Stephen, Lenny Zeltser, Scott Winters, Karen Fredrick, Ronald W. Ritchey. Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems. Que, 2002.
Northcutt, Stephen, Mark Cooper, Matt Fearnow, Karen Frederick. Intrusion Signatures and Analysis. Que, 2001.
Proctor, Paul E. Practical Intrusion Detection Handbook. Prentice Hall, 2000.
The Honeynet Project. Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community. Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 2001.

Forensics

Casey, Eoghan. Digital Evidence and Computer Crime. Academic Press, 2000.
Casey, Eoghan. Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation: Forensic Tools & Technology. Academic Press, 2001.
Kruse II, Warren G., Jay G. Heiser. Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials. Addison-Wesley Pub Co., 2001.
Marcella, Albert J., R. S. Greenfield. Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes. Auerbach Publications, 2002.
Prosise, Chris, Kevin Mandia. Incident Response Second Edition: Computer Forensics. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003.
Vacca, John R., Michael Erbschloe. Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation. Charles River Media, 2002.

Criptography

Ferguson, Niels, Bruce Schneier. Practical Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Garfinkel, Simson. PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. O’Reilly and Associates, 1995.
Menezes, Alfred J., Paul C. Van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone. Handbook of Applied Cryptography. CRC Press, 1996.
Schneier, Bruce. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C. John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
Schneier, Bruce. Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World. John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Stallings, William. Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice. Prentice Hall, 2002.

Real cases

Garfinkel, Simson and E. H. Spafford. Web Security and Commerce. O’Reilly and Associates, 2002.
Ghosh, Anup K. B-Commerce Security: Weak Links, Best Defenses. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
McGraw, Gary and E. Felten. Securing Java: Getting Down to Business with Mobile Code. John Wiley and Sons, 1999.

Histories of security

Freedman, David and C. Mann. At Large: The Strange Case of the World’s Biggest Internet Invasion. Touchstone Books, 1998.
Slatala, Michelle. and J. Quittner. Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace. Perennial, 1996.
Stoll, Clifford. The Cuckoo’s Egg. Pocket Books, 2000.
Mitnick, Kevin D., William L. Simon. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security. John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

"Hackers" series

McClure, Stuart, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz. Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Fourth Edition. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2003.
Hatch, Brian, James B. Lee, George Kurtz. Hacking Linux Exposed. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001.
Scambray, Joel and Stuart McClure. Hacking Exposed Windows 2000: Network Security Secrets & Solutions. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001.
Schiffman, Mike. Hacker's Challenge: Test Your Incident Response Skills Using 20 Scenarios. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001.
Schiffman Mike, Bill Pennington, David Pollino, Adam J. O'Donnell. Hacker's Challenge 2: Test Your Network Security & Forensic Skills. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2002.
Scambray, Joel, Mike Shema. Hacking Exposed (TM) Web Applications. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2002.
Jones, Keith J., Mike Shema, Bradley C. Johnson. Anti-Hacker Tool Kit. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2002.