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  1. Memory-Resident Malware and Fileless Attack Detection
    Memory-Resident Malware and Fileless Attack Detection
    Windows Internals, Memory Forensics, EDR, and Network Detection Engineering
    Steve Publications

    A practical guide to finding threats that never need to touch disk. Explore Windows internals, memory forensics, EDR telemetry and network detection through safe labs and real investigative methods. Built for defenders who want to understand what happens in memory, spot suspicious behavior and turn evidence into reliable detections.

  2. Reverse Engineering with Claude Code
    Reverse Engineering with Claude Code
    AI-Assisted Analysis, Understanding, and Reconstruction of Software Systems
    Steve Publications

    Reverse engineering gets a powerful upgrade with Claude Code. Learn how to investigate, understand and reconstruct software you’re authorized to analyze, while keeping evidence, accuracy and reproducibility at the center. From legacy systems to modern codebases, this book turns AI into a practical partner for serious software analysis.

  3. Building Autonomous IT Operations Agents with MCP
    Building Autonomous IT Operations Agents with MCP
    A Practical Guide to Designing, Deploying, and Operating Production-Grade Agentic AI for IT Infrastructure
    Steve Publications

    Move beyond AI demos and build agents that can actually run IT operations. This practical guide takes you from MCP fundamentals to production-ready monitoring, incident response, remediation, Kubernetes operations, security and multi-agent systems, with complete runnable code and a strong focus on safe autonomy.

  4. Cybersecurity for Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure
    Cybersecurity for Operational Technology and Critical Infrastructure
    An End-to-End Guide for Securing Industrial Control Systems and Mission-Critical Environments
    Steve Publications

    Cyber threats do not stop at the office network. When industrial systems are targeted, the consequences can reach far beyond lost data. This practical guide shows how to secure OT and critical infrastructure from the ground up, combining proven standards, real-world defenses and hands-on guidance for the systems that keep the world running.

  5. Modern Information Security
    Modern Information Security
    Principles, Architectures, Operations, and Strategy for the Digital Age
    Steve Publications

    Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT problem. Modern Information Security connects the principles, architecture, operations and strategy behind effective security programs. From identity and cloud security to incident response, governance and emerging threats, it offers practical guidance for building security that works in the real world.

  6. Network Security: A Comprehensive Guide For Beginners And Advanced Learners

    Understand the threats. Learn the defenses. Build a stronger foundation in Network Security.Modern organizations depend on computer networks for communication, business operations, cloud services, applications, and data exchange. With this growing connectivity comes an equally important challenge: protecting networks from unauthorized access, attacks, vulnerabilities, and security incidents.Network Security: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners and Advanced Learners provides a structured learning journey for students and aspiring security professionals who want to understand how modern networks are protected.The book begins with the fundamentals of networking and network security, covering network topologies, OSI and TCP/IP models, network devices, IP addressing, subnetting, protocols, and ports. It then moves into common cyber threats and vulnerabilities, including malware, phishing, social engineering, DoS and DDoS attacks, Man-in-the-Middle attacks, weak authentication, and software vulnerabilities.Readers will learn important security principles such as the CIA Triad, AAA, Defense-in-Depth, Least Privilege, and Risk Management, followed by an introduction to cryptography, encryption, digital signatures, certificates, TLS, IPsec, and PKI.The book also explores firewalls, IDS, IPS, SIEM, VPNs, wireless security, Network Access Control, web application security, HTTPS, secure development practices, incident response, digital forensics concepts, disaster recovery, and business continuity.The final chapters look toward the future, introducing Zero Trust, Next-Generation Firewalls, AI and Machine Learning in cybersecurity, Cloud Security, and IoT Security.For students, the book provides a strong academic foundation. For aspiring professionals, it introduces important technologies, responsibilities, career paths, and security practices.The goal is not simply to learn how attacks occur, but to understand how responsible security professionals identify risks, protect systems, respond to incidents, and continuously improve security.Learn the fundamentals. Understand the risks. Think like a security professional.

  7. Building Web Scrapers with Scrapy
    Building Web Scrapers with Scrapy
    A Practical Guide to Robust, Scalable, Production-Ready Web Data Extraction
    Steve Publications

    Build web scrapers that survive the real world. This hands-on guide takes you from Scrapy fundamentals to scalable production systems, with practical patterns for asynchronous crawling, clean data pipelines, testing, deployment and resilient architectures. Packed with runnable Python examples, it gives you the skills to scrape smarter, faster and at scale.

  8. Advanced WordPress Malware Removal
    Advanced WordPress Malware Removal
    Persistent Infections, Reinfection, and Recovery
    MD Pabel

    The plugin was deleted. The malware came back. This real WordPress investigation shows why. Follow a multi-layer infection across plugins, MU plugins, drop-ins, theme code, database records, memory, recovery archives, administrator access, and browser persistence—and learn how to remove the recovery system instead of deleting one visible symptom.

  9. Securing AI-Generated Code
    Securing AI-Generated Code
    A Practical Guide to Safely Developing with AI-Assisted Software
    Steve Publications

    AI can write code in seconds, but can you trust what it creates? Securing AI-Generated Code shows you how to uncover hidden vulnerabilities, stop risky dependencies, secure AI coding agents and build safer development pipelines. A practical guide for teams that want the speed of AI without putting security on the line.

  10. Private Computing with Homomorphic Encryption
    Private Computing with Homomorphic Encryption
    From Foundations to Production for Software Engineers
    Steve Publications

    What if your software could compute on sensitive data without ever seeing it? Private Computing with Homomorphic Encryption takes you from the core ideas to working, production-minded systems. Learn the math, schemes, libraries and design patterns you need to build with HE, judge its tradeoffs and know when it is the right tool for the job.

  11. THE SECURITY MINDSET
    THE SECURITY MINDSET
    The Founder's, Executive's and Developer's Playbook
    Skeler Security

    This playbook was prepared by SkelerSecurity to equip founders, executives and developers of earlystage healthcare, financial technology and adjacent high-trust ventures with the security mindset, the controls, and the business case they need to operate safely in a threat environment that has industrialized.

  12. Mastering Frida
    Mastering Frida
    Dynamic Instrumentation, Reverse Engineering and Security Testing with frida.re
    Steve Publications

    Get inside running software and see what it’s really doing. Mastering Frida takes you from your first hook to building serious instrumentation tools for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. Learn how Frida works under the hood, where platforms differ and how to use its power without getting burned.

  13. WebAssembly System Interface (WASI)
    WebAssembly System Interface (WASI)
    From Zero to Production — A Complete Guide to Sandboxed, Portable Components
    Steve Publications

    Build fast, secure and portable applications with WASI. Start with the fundamentals, then move into components, WIT, Wasmtime and real production patterns using Rust, C, Go and JavaScript. From sandboxed plugins to serverless and edge workloads, this practical guide gives you the skills to take WebAssembly from your first experiment to production.

  14. Cyber Attacks
    Cyber Attacks
    The extended stories of the cases in the card game
    Koen Vastmans

    Cyber security is everyone's concern. Everyone should be aware of the risks and impact of cyber attacks. Instead of limiting myself explaining what to do in order to prevent cyber attacks, this e-book and the game it accompanies start from real cyber security incidents that happened and learn what went wrong and how to avoid something similar to happen in your own context.

  15. The ISO/IEC 42001 Implementation Guide
    The ISO/IEC 42001 Implementation Guide
    A Practical Guide to Building an Artificial Intelligence Management System from Foundation to Certification
    Steve Publications

    AI governance is moving from principle to practice. This hands-on guide shows you how to build, implement and certify an ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system with confidence. From clause-by-clause guidance to practical templates, integration strategies and real-world scenarios, it turns a complex standard into a clear path from foundation to certification.