Books
Books by Dr Matt Lemon.
Practical, lab-driven books on cybersecurity and AI security by Dr Matt Lemon, CISO of 25+ years and Associate Professor at CCT College Dublin. Written for students, practitioners and security leaders, with hands-on Docker and Jupyter labs throughout.
Available now on Amazon
Security Leadership Blueprint
Your Path to Security Manager and CISO
The career and leadership guide for the climb from practitioner to Security Manager and CISO. Drawing on 25 years in the chair, it covers the business of security, building and running a team, leading through an incident, talking to the board, and landing the role, with ready-to-use toolkits, runbooks and a 30/60/90-day plan 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.
Applied 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.
Applied 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.
Applied AI Security: From Models to Agents
20 chapters · 20 hands-on labs · companion title
Securing systems whose behaviour is learned, not written: adversarial ML, prompt injection, RAG and autonomous agents, red-teaming, incident response and AI governance under the EU AI Act. You build the attacks, then the defences, across 20 laptop-ready labs.
Hands-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