IT Security Certification Books

Whether you are pursuing a CISSP, CISA, Security+, CEH or any other security certification a book is a good way to study and prepare to pass the exam. This page contains books written or co-authored by Superior Solutions, Inc employees that can be used to help you obtain that computer or network security certifications you are working toward.

CISA Exam Prep
The CISA Exam Prep provides you with the market's most comprehensive and current material for passing the new CISA certification exam. The CISA Exam Prep by Michael Gregg provides readers the content they need to master the exam such as chapter review questions, practice exams, exam alerts, notes, tips, and cautions. You'll also have exclusive access to online test questions, which help you assess your understanding of the material before you take your CISA exam.

The CISA Exam Prep 2- Que Publishing - Author: Michael Gregg

CISSP Exam Cram 2
Learn what you need to know to master the ISC2 CISSP security technology and the certification exam with the CISSP Exam Cram 2. A perfect compliment to larger study guides, the CISSP Exam Cram 2 by Michael Gregg is a great way to find out exactly what will be expected of you during the real exam.

The CISSP Exam Prep 2- Que Publishing - Author: Michael Gregg

CEH Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Prep
The CEH certification shows knowledge of network penetration testing skills. The CEH exam takes three hours and 125 questions, requiring a broad and deep knowledge of network security issues. The CEH Exam Prep is the perfect solution for this challenge, giving you the solid, in-depth coverage you'll need to score higher on the exam. Along with the most current CEH content, the book also contains the elements that make Exam Preps such strong study aides.  Learn first hand from best selling author Michael Gregg 

The CEH Exam Prep 2- Que Publishing - Author: Michael Gregg

Security Administrator Street Smarts
Security Administrator Street Smarts is designed to provide hands-on Security + certification skills.  This certification book is designed to help current or aspiring IT security professionals put their certification to work for them. Security Administrator Street Smarts is full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. Each exercise is based on actual Security+ exam objectives so that the book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.

Security Administrator Street Smarts -Sybex Publishing - Author: Michael Gregg & David Miller

Hands-on IT Security Books

Superior Solutions, Inc. provides security consulting and IT training services.  Superior Solutions, Inc. has developed a massive amount of content and some of the best selling security and certification titles including:  

Emerging Threat Analysis
The cost of misconfigured networks or unpatched systems continues to rise.  Emerging Threat Analysis explores emerging threats and the vectors from which they arise.  Technologies covered include VoIP, smart phones, pocket PCs, SCADA systems and more. Emerging Threat Analysis also examines new attack classes include bots and botnets, second-tier attacks, etc. Each chapter concludes best practices to securely deploy the covered technology and defend against the new attack classes. 

The Emerging Threat Analysis- Syngress Publishing - Co-Author: Michael Gregg

Hack the Stack
A truly unique book that presents security topics in a layer by layer approach which offers the readers a way to learn about exploits in a manner similar to which they most likely originally learned networking. This methodology makes this book a useful tool to not only security professionals but also for networking professionals, application programmers, and others. Michael Gregg, George Mays, and Ron Bandes cover all of the primary protocols such as IP, ICMP, TCP. Each is discussed from a security perspective. The authors convey the mindset of the attacker by examining how seemingly small flaws are often the catalyst of potential threats. 

Hack the Stack- Syngress Publishing - Co-Author: Michael Gregg

Inside Network Security Assessment
As an IT professional, you need to know how to perform network security assessments. Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure is a collection of utilities and templates that will take you through the assessment process. Written by two highly qualified authors, Michael Gregg and David Kim, this book was written to provide you with step-by-step training on assessing security, from paperwork to penetration testing to ethical hacking. You'll save everyone time and money by learning to perform security assessments yourself with the help of Inside Network Security Assessment.

Inside Network Security Assessment-Sams Publishing - Author: Michael Gregg & David Kim

How to Cheat Open Source Security Tools
The perfect book for multi-tasked security professionals and IT managers responsible for securing corporate networks using the 10 most popular tools including: Snort, Nessus, Wireshark, Nmap, and Kismet on Windows, Linux, or Max OS X.
This book is designed to teach readers about the many common vulnerabilities and the ways in which attackers exploit, manipulate, misuse, and abuse protocols and applications. Mr. Gregg and the other authors guide the readers to identify and defend against these attacks using the most commonly deployed open source security tools including Wireshark (sniffer), Snort (IDS), Nessus (Vulnerability Assessment), and Kismet (wireless sniffer). The sniffer is used to help readers understand how the protocols should work and what the various attacks are doing to break them. IDS is used to demonstrate the format of specific signatures and provide the reader with the skills needed to recognize and detect attacks when they occur. 

How to Cheat Open Source Security Tools- Syngress Publishing - Co-Author: Michael Gregg

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