Top 5 - 2018 Cyber-Analytics and Historical Gift Books ⋆ The Cyber Sentinel

Top 5 – 2018 Cyber-Analytics and Historical Gift Books

Connect--But, be very careful

The must read books for 2018

These are the BEST books for the 2018 Cybersecurity Professional. These are the Top 5 that provide background about the challenges, threats, and hopes facing all of us fighting an ever-evolving world where the bad-guys always seem one step ahead. All must reads and should be part of your professional libraries.

Hubbard’s work is groundbreaking. Have we been chasing the wrong metrics for too long? Insightful and compelling to better understand that the math may actually help us better predict the impacts to our IT systems and environments.

What’s Next for Better Cyber Predictive Analytics?

**Nate Silver provides context to the challenge of predictive analytics. Not just better earthquake, hurricane, and poker predictions. A must-follow website.**

BOOK: “The Signal and the Noise”

**Want to know who the real threat in cyber-space is, this is the book to get you to think. The Chinese are on a mission to usurp the US in almost every venue…by hook or by (cyber-espionage) crook.**

Should We Cyber-Snoop?

**How about those “invisible” hackers of Anonymous? Want to learn something about how they have been successful, and also have been caught and imprisoned. A great background book.**

**Considered one of the beginning salvo books by hackers. Historical, but see the real persistence as described by the author in this most predictive book of its day.**

Donna Columbus

Ms. Columbus has worked in the Intelligence Community (IC) for over 20 years. She retired from the US Air Force in 2014 after working as a Senior Advisor providing authoritative advice on all aspects of Cyberspace operations, force structure and organizational concepts. She oversaw strategic support activities to enable the right mix of cyber capabilities for future operations.