Share with Your Network
You love reading, we love reading. That’s why this summer Kenna Security is sharing with you a list of titles our research team have read, are reading, or look forward to reading this summer. The topics range from security (of course) to puzzle books to a study of the evolution of cephalopods. We hope you’ll find something that peaks your interest.
Ed Bellis, our fearless CTO and Co-Founder
- Data-Driven Security: Analysis, Visualization and Dashboards by Jay Jacobs, Bob Rudis
“Jay is one of our partners in research from the Cyentia Institute, and a very sharp data scientist, so I try to consume pretty much everything he writes.”
- Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think 1st Edition by Andy Oram (Editor), John Viega (Editor)
“A classic, and I’m especially fond of Chapter 5..”
- Threat Modeling: Designing for Security 1st Edition by Adam Shostack
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Jerry Gamblin, our own personal hacker here at Kenna and, oh yeah, our Principal Security Engineer
- GCHQ Puzzle Book 2 by GCHQ
“This is a great book for your beach vacation or for when you are stranded at O’Hare due to thunderstorms. I carry this book with me almost everywhere I go and it is great when you need to take a quick mental break.”
- Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre
“This book gives a look into what will happen when we start letting AI make more decisions on the battlefield and the consequences that could have. It also dives into some of the technology that makes that possible.”
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
Jonathan Cran, self-professed “vulnerability janitor” but externally known as Kenna’s Head of Research
- Malware Data Science by Joshua Saxe
“This is less a book on malware and more a book on modeling data. Malware just happens to be the subject matter. Pick it up if you’re looking for a data science project, it’s a short read.”
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems 1st Edition by Martin Kleppmann
“As a good developer friend of mine put it, this is one of those books you read so you don’t have to read all the others. It’s not a small book, but it’s a surprisingly readable tome on the ideas application developers have to think and make decisions about as they design big data systems.”
- The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You by Scott E. Page
“This one is a challenging read, possibly better as a reference, but it grabbed me right away in the first chapter by digging into situations in which you have many models, and how you can use this to your advantage to converge on a ‘correct’ answer. Certainly a relevant book in the age of machine learning.”
“If you don’t know the history of cDc and the l0pht, you’re missing one of the most interesting stories in hacker history. This one is an easy read that brings you into the world of some of the best hackers in the world. Don’t miss it.”
Michael Roytman, our wizard of data science, also known more officially as Kenna’s Chief Data Scientist
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Reprint Edition by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
