Who Is This Book For?

This book is for developers, admins, team leads, architects, technology generalists, and all others who stand guard against the things that go bump in the network. It’s particularly for those who work in organizations that don’t have dedicated security staff or don’t have much interaction with dedicated security staff. If you thought that a couple of those job titles could apply to you, this book is for you. Sometimes these kinds of organizations are startups. Sometimes they’re software development teams in large, well-established companies who have been left on their own to determine their own security posture alongside their regular day job of building useful software systems.