In this episode of ReversingGlass, Matt tailors to all of the book worms out there by sharing some of his favorite authors and stories. But that’s not all of course… He also shares the cybersecurity and app sec authors that will be presenting at Black Hat USA Booth #3034. Plus: Attendees who register in advance will get a free, signed copy of the author’s book. Save your spot now. 

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Episode Transcript

MATT ROSE: Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of ReversingGlass. I'm Matt Rose, Field CISO with ReversingLabs. Today's episode is "Must See: Black Hat." Remember Must See TV? Well, this is Must See Black Hat. And what do I mean by that? Well, ReversingLabs is doing some really cool things. We're doing three, count them, three book signings in our booth during the show hours, during the week of Black Hat.

Really cool stuff, but I'm not going to give it away just yet, because talking about authors, and these are really cool authors, I know them and met them myself. Who are my favorite authors? I have this wealth of, you know, technical information that I like to share. Some people think it's cool, some people think I'm crazy, but it is.

But, I like a lot of different things, so I wanted to share some of the favorite authors I have, and food for thought, if someone wants to get out there. The first one is Michael Crichton, famous for Jurassic Park. If you want a great author of science fiction, tech type stuff, in a great format: Jurassic Park, Sphere, Congo, Andromeda Strain, great group of books. I say highly suggest them way back to, you know, the early 90s, Michael Crichtonson's passed away, but great book, or great author. The second one I wanted to bring up, let's go with this one: Stephen E. Ambrose. I'm moving to a totally different type of background. Great author of World War II history books. I'm a big World War II history buff. My grandfather served in World War II, so I love to read anything. The best author, I think, for this type of stuff is Stephen E. Ambrose. And I even have, I'm big about props. Here's one of his books, D- Day, Citizen Soldier. All great reads if you like to go down that path.

And then my other kind of obsession that everyone or a lot of people, if they know me, know me, that I love golf. Mark Frost has a bunch of historic golf books and historic softball, softball, sports books associated with the game of golf, the history of golf.  is really the introduction to golf in the U.S. And again, with props, I have this lovely picture. Let's spin it around without breaking anything. That is that same one. This is ... Very famous from the 1919 U. S. Open at the Country Club in Brookline, and that is Francis Sumet and Eddie Lowery, which are on the cover of the book. So if you enjoy science fiction, if you enjoy World War II history, or if you enjoy golf history, check out those authors with Michael Crichton, Stephenie Ambrose, and Mark Frost.