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  1. The Anatomy of Modern Endpoint Detection and Response
    The Anatomy of Modern Endpoint Detection and Response
    From Kernel Hooks to Zero Trust — A Security Professional's Guide
    Steve Publications

    Endpoint Detection and Response is at the core of modern cybersecurity. This book explores the technologies behind EDR, from kernel-level telemetry to threat hunting and zero-trust architectures, providing practical guidance for deploying and operating EDR at scale.

  2. Trust Graph Intelligence: Securing Machine Identities at Scale

    Machine identities outnumber humans 82:1 in modern cloud environments. Every IAM role, every OIDC federation from your CI/CD pipeline, every service account — they accumulate silently. No one monitors them. No one audits them. Each one is a potential entry point for attackers. This book shows you how to build the platform that makes them visible.

  3. AI Agent Security: A Field Manual

    Threat → Control → Requirement → Verification. The field manual to read before you ship an autonomous agent.

  4. CCSP - Certified Cloud Security Professional: The Complete Study Guide
    CCSP - Certified Cloud Security Professional: The Complete Study Guide
    Mastering Cloud Security Across All Six Domains
    Steve Publications

    Master cloud security with confidence using this comprehensive CCSP study guide. Covering all six CCSP domains, it combines clear explanations, real-world examples, and exam-focused practice to help you succeed on the certification exam while building practical cloud security skills for your career.

  5. CIS Controls v8.1: The Definitive Guide to Cybersecurity's Most Actionable Framework
    CIS Controls v8.1: The Definitive Guide to Cybersecurity's Most Actionable Framework
    A Complete Walkthrough of the 18 Controls, 153 Safeguards, and Implementation Groups for Modern Organizations
    Steve Publications

    The CIS Controls are one of the most trusted cybersecurity frameworks, but turning them into a real security program isn't always straightforward. This book walks through all 18 controls and 153 safeguards with clear explanations, practical guidance, and real-world context to help you implement the framework with confidence, whether you're starting from scratch or improving an existing program.

  6. Application Sandboxing
    Application Sandboxing
    Principles, Technologies, and Secure Isolation
    Steve Publications

    Application sandboxing is the foundation of secure modern computing. This book explores the principles, architectures, and technologies behind containers, virtual machines, browser sandboxes, WebAssembly, and more, explaining how they isolate untrusted code, where their security boundaries break down, and how to choose the right approach for real-world systems.

  7. Assembly Under the Hood: Modern x64 Programming for Windows
    Assembly Under the Hood: Modern x64 Programming for Windows
    From Fundamentals to Advanced Techniques
    Steve Publications

    Discover how Windows software really works with a practical guide to modern x64 assembly. From core concepts to advanced optimization, reverse engineering, and low-level systems programming, this book equips you with the knowledge to write fast, secure, and efficient code.

  8. The IDA Pro Handbook
    The IDA Pro Handbook
    Disassembly, Decompilation, Debugging, and Reverse Engineering at Scale with IDA 9.0+
    Steve Publications

    Master IDA Pro 9.x with a practical, comprehensive guide to modern reverse engineering. From disassembly and decompilation to debugging, IDAPython, automation, malware analysis, and binary patching, this book equips you with the skills and workflows needed to analyze real-world binaries with confidence.

  9. Will Never DM You First
    Will Never DM You First
    Inside the Scam Economy of Open Communities
    Bruno Galvao

    Every crypto channel pins the same frantic warning: the admins will never DM you first. This is the field guide to the scam economy behind that line — impersonated admins, deepfaked founders, pig-butchering, and entire synthetic communities — traced across three eras, from spam to crypto to AI, and the one question that ends it: who is in the room?

  10. BlackHat Zig
    BlackHat Zig
    Offensive Security, Exploit Development, and Tooling with the Zig Programming Language
    Steve Publications

    Modern cybersecurity needs tools that are fast, reliable and close to the hardware. BlackHat Zig shows how Zig's performance, memory control and compile-time features make it a powerful language for building security tools. Through practical examples, you'll learn Zig while exploring reverse engineering, exploit development, malware analysis, network security and defensive engineering.

  11. Secrets at Scale
    Secrets at Scale
    A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Secrets Across the Full Software Delivery Lifecycle
    Steve Publications

    Secrets are one of the most overlooked risks in modern infrastructure. Secrets at Scale is a practical guide to managing credentials, API keys, certificates and other sensitive data across modern software environments. It gives engineers, DevOps teams, platform teams and security professionals the tools to build secure, scalable secrets management.

  12. The Witness Prompt
    The Witness Prompt
    Bambordé Baldé

    Josh saw the shooting outside his college. His AI headset did not let him see the people who carried it out. Three milliseconds earlier, a routine safety update had changed the rules.

  13. Mobile Application Security
    Mobile Application Security
    The Definitive Guide to Protecting Android, iOS, and Cross-Platform Applications
    Steve Publications

    Mobile apps handle some of our most sensitive data, making security essential. Mobile Application Security explores how Android, iOS and cross-platform apps are attacked and secured. Covering secure coding, cryptography, reverse engineering and penetration testing, it gives developers, security professionals and students the practical skills to build and assess secure mobile applications.

  14. Mastering Android NDK: Native Development for Performance, Security, and JNI
    Mastering Android NDK: Native Development for Performance, Security, and JNI
    Protect Secrets, Boost Performance, and Master JNI with Native Code
    Mahmoud Ramadan

    Go beyond Kotlin and unlock the full power of Android native development with practical NDK projects in security, audio, video, computer vision, and on-device AI.

  15. Security Engineering Masterclass

    Security engineering is about building systems that stay secure when things go wrong. This book covers the fundamentals of secure applications, infrastructure and operations through practical examples, real breaches and proven security practices.