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What yet-to-be-written security book would you like to see on your shelves?

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Looking at my library of security books. What yet-to-be-written book would you like to see on your shelves?

How to Secure Your Life. It would cover everything from your physical wallet to your smartphone to public networks to your home network. End-to-end best practices for securing your life.

Am I secure? At the strategic level, this is among the most important questions to be answered by each of us.

A tactical guide to reach confidence in processes to which we entrust our businesses can certainly help people to improve their security posture.

I like the idea. Thanks.

I was just thinking of a well-written "Security for Dummies". (Some books in the Dummies series are well written.)

Along with the premise that a significant fraction of the public would read it and become reasonably informed at least in layman's terms.

Perhaps that -- they -- in turn would effectively influence public knowledge and reporting as well as government and business policy and practice.

A list of types of threats, organized by target area, summarizing:

    - each threat
    - its basic mechanism
    - basic effective defenses
    - common ineffective defenses
    - tradeoffs between more effective and less effective defenses
    - possible stopgaps until you can use an effective defense
    - where to start to learn more about each.

Sort of a Zagat's of security.

I would also like to see evo_9's How to Secure Your Life, described in his comment.

A Zagat's of security. The ThreatBook. A quick reference guide to the threats we might end up to be vulnerable and the applicable defenses in review. There's much to be written here. Thanks.

And you might support the book (in both senses of the word "support") with a web site.

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