New Book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 1



I'm very pleased to announce that I've published a new book!

It's The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 1: Milestones, Philosophy and Strategy, Risk, and Advice. It's available now in the Kindle Store, and if you're a member of Kindle Unlimited, it's currently free. I may also publish a print version. If you're interested, please tell me on Twitter.



The book lists at 332 pages and is over 83,000 words. I've been working on it since last year, but I've used the time in isolation to carry the first volume over the finish line.

The Amazon.com description says:

Since 2003, cybersecurity author Richard Bejtlich has been writing posts on TaoSecurity Blog, a site with 15 million views since 2011. Now, after re-reading over 3,000 posts and approximately one million words, he has selected and republished the very best entries from 17 years of writing.

In the first volume of the TaoSecurity Blog series, Bejtlich addresses milestones, philosophy and strategy, risk, and advice. Bejtlich shares his thoughts on leadership, the intruder's dilemma, managing burnout, controls versus assessments, insider versus outsider threats, security return on investment, threats versus vulnerabilities, controls and compliance, the post that got him hired at a Fortune 5 company as their first director of incident response, and much more.

He has written new commentaries to accompany each post, some of which would qualify as blog entries in their own right.  Read how the security industry, defensive methodologies, and strategies to improve career opportunities have evolved in this new book, written by one of the authors who has seen it all and survived to blog about it.

Finally, if you're interested in subsequent volumes, I have two planned.


I may also have a few other book projects in the pipeline. I'll have more to say on that in the coming weeks.

If you have any questions about the book, let me know. Currently you can see the table of contents via the "Look Inside" function, and there is a sample that lets you download and read some of the book. Enjoy!

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