Firewall maker Palo Alto Networks is sponsoring the Cyber-Security Canon, a sort of Hall of Fame of timeless, classic information security books.
I have to say I haven’t read every book on the list, by a long shot, but the books I have read that made the cut were, indeed, very good indeed. So I think I would be willing to recommend anything on this list without looking any further. Indeed, I probably need to buy a few of these books that I haven’t read and get reading myself.

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
