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Yes it is, very good book because it goes from the fundamentals to elaborate examples.

Now if you really want to be in research and current attack/defense then you need to do your homework.

But all the foundations in this book will help you have a comprehensive picture of the landscape you're playing in.

3rd edition is 2020

Thanks, I'd found the first edition a really good book when I was early in my security career many years ago, I shall have to check the 2020 edition!

Author himself points out just how much has changed, in the two decades, in the preface to the latest edition.