We Have Root: Even More Advice from Schneier on Security

by Bruce Schneier

A collection of popular essays from security guru Bruce Schneier

In his latest collection of essays, security expert Bruce Schneier tackles a range of cybersecurity, privacy, and real-world security issues ripped from the headlines. Essays cover the ever-expanding role of technology in national security, war, transportation, the Internet of Things, elections, and more. Throughout, he challenges the status quo with a call for leaders, voters, and consumers to make better security and privacy decisions and investments.

Bruce's writing has previously appeared in some of the world's best-known and most-respected publications, including The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired, and many others. And now you can enjoy his essays in one place--at your own speed and convenience.

Timely security and privacy topics The impact of security and privacy on our world Perfect for fans of Bruce's blog and newsletter Lower price than his previous essay collections The essays are written for anyone who cares about the future and implications of security and privacy for society.

Genres: Audiobook, Technology, Nonfiction, Ebooks, Computers

304 pages, ebook

Published August 8, 2019

About the author

Bruce Schneier is a renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He has written more than one dozen books, including the New York Times bestseller Data and Goliath (2014) and Click Here to Kill Everybody (2018). He teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Vincent V · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is quite of a good overview of general problems between different actors and policies in US about cybersecurity. I learned to be more open to open source where I can see the code know that there isn't any backdoors for some shadowy government agency. Also one should try to keep all data save as on the long run data is plentiful, but trust is rare. Then there's the issue of education which he said that the government bodies don't know anything about cybersecurity, this happens because big institutions have slow moving human capital and since this human capital of IT has been increasing the knowledge gap between large institutions and small institutions is turning for the big players. Author correctly identified that small players are able to seize the new technology before big ones; but given time the big solid players will take over and increase their existing capabilities while making many startups suffer. This depends on the control mechanism in the large system that either replaces the part fast enough or gets overrun by some small player that builds up the concept of the larger player out in technology fully and slowly replaces the larger player once the reliance on this technology is fully embraced by everyone(doesn't happen with government tax offices or bureaucracy only in the market).

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a collection of Schneier's articles about the future of government in the internet age, the role of the NSA and how it could be made better, the problems with the lack of security of the internet of things, and many more security related topics.

I enjoyed Schneier's writing and I strongly recommend this book.

[Jayne Little · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy to read book, collection of posts.
OK information, accessible, easily shared with those who are not in the security field.

[Larry Noe · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a collection of articles that are fairly old, but for the most part they are still relevant. I've been reading Schneier's monthly newsletter for years, so I have already read some of these articles. There is a fair amount of repetition since some articles are published in different places for different audiences, but no big deal. I enjoy his intelligent take on the state of security.

[Mr. Cat · Rating 1 out of 5]

it's mostly copy paste from articles of newspapers very often the chapters repeat the same text over and over again. It has some information about IT security but it is buried under of mountain of copy paste. the author did not bother to properly right this book.

[Alex Gyoshev · Rating 3 out of 5]

Collection of essays, which makes it a bit repetitive. Good points about the iot security economics.

[Jeff Hexter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good content that gets better as you approach the more current essays, but still a bit dated. Schneier's principles are timeless though.

[BERNARD HILTON · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good and specific

[Mike DiFilippo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essays from Bruce. Always a reliable source of cyber security information these are older pieces and occasionally dated but still a lot to learn and reinforce about best practices.