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Applied Cybersecurity: Foundations to Mastery.
A 22-chapter applied cybersecurity textbook by Dr Matt Lemon — CISO of 25+ years and Associate Professor at CCT College Dublin. Built for undergraduates, postgraduates and self-study, with hands-on Docker and Jupyter labs throughout.
Applied Cybersecurity: Foundations to Mastery
Complete single volume · all 22 chapters + appendices
The full text in one searchable eBook — Foundations, Advanced, and Research & Capstone, plus all four appendices. Ideal for reference and self-study.
View on AmazonApplied Cybersecurity: Foundations
Volume I · Chapters 1–11 · 562 pp
Core security foundations — threats and adversaries, cryptography, network and system security, identity, and the groundwork for everything that follows.
Coming 29th JuneApplied Cybersecurity: Mastery
Volume II · Chapters 12–22 · 550 pp
Advanced and applied — cloud, OT and critical infrastructure, digital forensics, AI, ML and LLM security, and a research capstone.
Coming 29th JuneHands-on labs
Every chapter comes with reproducible labs.
The labs ship as Jupyter notebooks and self-contained Docker environments. Spin the stack up locally, work through the notebooks chapter by chapter, and tear it down when you are done. No cloud account required. Each book has its own lab pack, free to download.
Download Labs- 25+ Jupyter notebooks
- 60+ Docker labs
- One pack per book
- Runs fully offline