The Cybersecurity Analyst series
Three books, one career: from breaking in to senior judgment
Start with the book that matches where you are, or get the complete series — three ebooks and three audiobooks — for $59.99.
Book 1No security background required
Book 2One to three years in, past the basics
Book 3Senior, and the inflection point is now
Three books, one career
What each book covers
Cybersecurity Analyst · Book 1
A Beginner's Guide to Your First Alert Queue and Your First Job Offer
Teaches the job from zero through real, worked shifts and investigations instead of definitions to memorize, and ends with a 30-day plan for landing a first job.
Read about this book- Walk a real overnight shift through three cases: a false-positive login, a blocked malvertising attempt, and a phishing-driven account compromise, all analyzed before any acronym is defined.
- Explain the three-tool investigation stack — SIEM, EDR, and Wireshark — and trace a real beaconing-malware case across all three.
- Reason about the CIA Triad as the tradeoff logic behind real security decisions, worked through a shared-drive access scenario.
- Rehearse the two behavioral questions and two technical-investigation frameworks every beginner interview asks, with the STAR method and a 30-day job-landing plan.
Cybersecurity Analyst · Book 2
An Intermediate's Guide to Owning the Case Instead of Closing the Ticket
Works the shift from junior Tier-1 responder to owning the full case through scripting fluency, case judgment, and the discipline that holds up in a court, with three worked interview scenarios.
Read about this book- Run Python, PowerShell, and Bash automation to absorb a full case instead of one alert at a time, with a portfolio project that survives a follow-up question.
- Work the full NIST incident-response cycle on a contained service-account compromise with a genuine isolate-now-or-observe-longer call, then compress it on a second, faster case.
- Trace chain-of-custody discipline through order of volatility, write-blockers, hash verification, and dual sign-off on a departing-employee case and live ransomware at 2 a.m.
- Review AI-generated incident narratives for the one claim that doesn't hold up, and work three scenarios — log correlation, phishing investigation, and Pass the Hash mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Cybersecurity Analyst · Book 3
An Expert's Guide to the Fork at Year Eight, the AI-Native SOC You Now Have to Run, and the Interview That Tests What You'd Actually Decide
Works the year-eight fork between individual contributor, management, and CISO through decision frameworks, automation boundaries, adversarial AI defense, and the interview that tests what you'd actually decide.
Read about this book- Choose between staying an individual contributor, moving into management, or engineering deliberately toward CISO with a CISSP five-year, two-domain clock and a written Tier 1 → Tier 2 rotation policy.
- Build an automation-boundary guardrail matrix — blast radius, reversibility, confidence calibration — modeled on Carvana's human-in-the-loop SOC to decide what an AI agent gets to do without asking.
- Defend against evasion and poisoning attacks with a five-layer stack (adversarial training, defensive distillation, input detection, data validation, differential privacy) and understand why no single layer closes the threat model.
- Brief the board through a breach in seven steps, score vulnerabilities with a composite formula that replaces CVSS with EPSS and KEV data, and calculate clearance-and-geography compensation models that move director pay by $45,000–$75,000 a year.
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The Complete Cybersecurity Analyst Series
3 ebooks + 3 audiobooks · 11 h 46 min of listening in total
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Career Accelerator
Everything in the series, plus the interview bank, the 30-day workbook and the mock-interview prompts
$147.00
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