Catalogue of Books

A first-hand account by CIA operatives Andrew and Jihi Bustamante describing their mission to uncover a mole inside the agency while operating in a hostile foreign environment. The book provides a rare insider view of modern intelligence operations, counterintelligence tactics, and the high-stakes pursuit of a hidden traitor.

A detailed history of the CIA in the 21st century, examining how the agency transformed after the 9/11 attacks and the wars that followed. Drawing on interviews with senior intelligence officials and operatives, the book explores the CIA’s struggles with espionage, counterintelligence failures, technological change, and the growing challenges posed by Russia, China, and global terrorism.

A historical account of Russia’s “illegals” program—deep-cover spies trained to live under false identities inside foreign societies for years or even decades. The book traces the evolution of this covert espionage strategy from the early Soviet era to modern Russia, revealing how these long-term infiltrations shaped intelligence operations and geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West.

A memoir by former Facebook public policy executive Sarah Wynn-Williams that reveals the internal culture, decision-making, and power dynamics inside one of the world’s most influential technology companies. The book explores how ambition, corporate pressure, and ethical failures shaped major global events and the behaviour of senior leaders within the organisation

Description: Insider threats are among the most complex and overlooked risks facing modern organizations. Whether driven by malice, negligence, or coercion, these threats exploit trust, access, and insider knowledge to compromise security, disrupt operations, and erode customer confidence.

In this essential guide, cybersecurity expert Travis F. Felder, MS draws on years of experience advising global enterprises to provide a comprehensive roadmap for managing insider risks. Combining strategic insight with actionable advice, this book equips leaders, security professionals, and managers with the tools they need to safeguard their organizations against insider threats.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Description: In this comprehensive guide, you’ll discover the most critical questions to ask about insider threats, along with detailed solutions, case studies, and actionable steps to mitigate risks. Written by a seasoned expert, this book draws from personal experiences and provides unique perspectives on the most pressing insider threat concerns.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: Tales of Insider Threat, Corporate Greed, Espionage and Just Bloody Stupid Behaviour

Description: In Behind Enemy Lines, Tales of Insider Threat, Corporate Greed, Espionage and Just Bloody Stupid Behaviour, Boaz Fischer provides the most important insights into understanding the vulnerabilities in human behaviour within organisations that were exposed by individuals whose actions caused substantial damage to the organisation and themselves.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Description: “Insider Threat: A Systemic Approach” provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and managing insider risk across various sectors, using real-world case studies to guide the integration of preventive, detective, and responsive controls within organisational practices.

Drawing on a decade of research from government departments globally, the book presents a data-driven, cost-effective approach to assessing and mitigating insider threats, making it valuable for professionals and academics in fields such as criminology, public policy, national security, and risk management

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: The Risks You Need To Know To Avoid An Internal Cyber Brecah Causing A Catastrophic Impact To Your Oganisation

Description: In 42 Risky Behaviours of an Insider Threat, Boaz Fischer provides a comprehensive overview of human risk and the way it can manifest in your organisation. Through a combination of professional insight, industry data and a host humbling examples, you’ll learn how to better identify risky employee behaviour that have the potential to result in harm, detriment or adverse consequences.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: How The Unconscious Mind Can Sabotage Ourselves, Our Organisations And Society

Description: The Saboteur at Work describes how unconscious psychological processes can sabotage individual lives, the functioning of groups, teams and organisations, and even global politics.

Drawing on research in the fields of psychology and organisations, this comprehensive yet straightforward and accessible book enables you to understand how the unconscious can impact progress and performance and describes practical techniques you can use to overcome the saboteur, individually and at work.

The book discusses the modern understanding of our adaptive unconscious, and you will learn about repression, imposter syndrome and other defence mechanisms. Ideas are brought to life using real-world examples and personal, organisational and national stories.

If you manage a team or lead an organisation, you need to understand the role played by the saboteur in your workplace and in your own career and life. This book enables leaders and managers to develop their leadership skills by understanding how the unconscious impacts individual, group and social processes. It will also be of use to coaches and organisational consultants working in the areas of teams and performance.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: The U.S. Army’s Official Playbook For Deception On The World’s Deadliest Stage

Description: The U.S. Army’s official playbook for deception on the world’s deadliest stage, and a must-read for anyone with an interest in today’s difficult military intelligence questions.

Topic Focus: Counterintelligence

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Sub Title: The Critical Pathway To Insider

Description: Dr. Shaw is the author of the Critical Pathway to Insider Risk (CPIR) which addresses the characteristics, experiences and connections at-risk employees bring to our organizations, the stressors that trigger higher levels of risk, the concerning behaviors that signal this risk has increased and the action or inaction by organizations that escalate insider risk. The CPIR also examines what these employees look like when they have broken bad and the personal characteristics, resources and support that can mitigate these risks. Dr. Shaw also examines specific risk accelerators like subject disgruntlement, personality disorders and problematic organizational responses that can escalate the speed and intensity of insider risks. The investigative applications, strengths and weaknesses of the CPIR are also considered.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: An Introduction

Description: This textbook examines insider risk’s causes and effects using real-life case studies and discusses how to protect organisations. Insiders who break trust by acting in damaging ways pose some of the biggest hazards to organisations and organisations. Insiders injure their employers, society, and betrayed coworkers and friends psychologically. Still, few businesses have a systematic awareness of insider danger and a clear and effective security mechanism to mitigate it. This book explores the environmental and psychological elements that predispose some people to become damaging insiders and the most typical ways they do so. Society’s increasing use of technology and changing work patterns have changed insider risk. The second half of the book describes a practical systems-based approach to personnel security, which protects against insider risk. It uses the best industry and academic research, behavioural science, and practitioner experience to illustrate how to make personnel security effective at managing risk and facilitating business.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: 10 Risks You Need To Know To To Avoid An Internal Cyber Breach Causing Catastophic Impact To Your Organisation

Description: In The Human Side of Cyber, Boaz Fischer deftly navigates the tricky topic with a combination of professional insight, personal reflections and host of humbling examples. Within it pages, you’ll learn how to equip your organisation to effectively prevent, detect, deter and respond to emerging threats.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Description: This expanded second edition builds on the success of the first, distinguishing between sudden impact and rising tide insider threats—those that develop gradually yet pose significant risks. It introduces new frameworks and tools, including the Loyalty Ledger and Intensity Scale, to assess and mitigate insider threats more effectively.

With three new chapters, the book explores the complexities of ambiguous insider behaviors, offering strategies to identify early warning signs and counter hostile insiders. It also delves into organizational resilience, providing lifelines—practical techniques to foster rational decision-making and prevent emotionally charged responses that could derail mitigation efforts.

Designed for security professionals, risk managers, and institutional defenders, this edition delivers updated research, case studies, and actionable strategies to address the growing frequency and sophistication of insider threats.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Description: Have you ever watched a colleague charm the pants off management while showing a competitive, Machiavellian side to the lower ranks? They don’t hesitate to throw peers under the bus, but their boss is oblivious to their bad behaviour.

What about a constantly interrupting colleague? Or an over-bearing manager? While these jerks stress us out in small ways throughout the day, they aren’t technically breaking any rules, so we’re expected just to put up with them.

Until now. Tessa West has helped thousands of people resolve their most pressing workplace issues. And now she draws on a decade of original research to profile classic workplace archetypes, including the Gaslighter, the Bulldozer, the Credit-Stealer, the Neglecter, and the Micromanager, giving advice to anyone who’s ever hidden in the bathroom to cry at work.

She digs deep into the inner workings of each bad apple, exploring their motivations and insecurities, and offers clever strategies for stopping each type of jerk in their tracks.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: Beyond Espionage

Description: This book analyzes China’s foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status.

Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating civilian and military development, reducing the cost of basic research, and shoring up its power domestically and abroad—without running the political risks borne by liberal societies as a basis for their creative developments. While discounted in some circles as derivative and consigned to perpetual catch-up mode, China’s “hybrid” system of legal, illegal, and extralegal import of foreign technology, combined with its indigenous efforts, is, the authors believe, enormously effective and must be taken seriously. Accordingly, in this volume, 17 international specialists combine their scholarship to portray the system’s structure and functioning in heretofore unseen detail, using primary Chinese sources to demonstrate the perniciousness of the problem in a manner not likely to be controverted. The book concludes with a series of recommendations culled from the authors’ interactions with experts worldwide.

This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, US foreign policy, intelligence studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations in general.

Topic Focus: Espionage

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Sub Title: Why Insider Risk Is The Biggest Cyber Threat You Can’t Ignore

Description: From data security company Code42, Inside Jobs offers companies of all sizes a new way to secure today’s collaborative cultures-one that works without compromising sensitive company data or slowing business down. Authors Joe Payne, Jadee Hanson, and Mark Wojtasiak, seasoned veterans in the cybersecurity space, provide a top-down and bottom-up picture of the rewards and perils involved in running and securing organizations focused on rapid, iterative, and collaborative innovation.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: Why Fraud Plagues America’s Health Care Systems

Description: This book offers a unique perspective on the challenges of fraud control within the U.S. healthcare system, highlighting its distinct approach compared to other industries such as financial services, credit card companies, and the Internal Revenue Service—all of which face similar threats but implement different strategies for fraud prevention.

While the book focuses on the American context, the issue of healthcare fraud is not exclusive to the United States. Similar challenges persist in Australia, the U.K., and other countries, making this an important topic of global concern.

Well-written and thoroughly articulated, License to Steal presents the complexities of healthcare fraud in a way that is accessible to a broad audience. It effectively lays out the scale of the problem, making it an insightful read for anyone interested in fraud prevention, regulatory challenges, or systemic inefficiencies in healthcare.

I found it to be an engaging and informative book that provides valuable insights into a critical issue.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Description: This short book is the most detailed work ever published in the unclassified world on China’s intelligence tradecraft. It is NOT a causal description of a few cases of Chinese espionage with pictures thrown in for intrigue and excitement. This monograph (50 pages) is a critical analysis of China’s current intelligence activities and associated espionage tradecraft. It reviews 595 cases of espionage, economic espionage, covert action, theft of technology and trade secrets.

The study identifies and analyzes the specific espionage tradecraft used by China’s intelligence services, State Owned Enterprises, universities, private companies, and individuals. This work is for Insider Threat specialists, Intelligence Officers, security professionals, attorneys, policy makers, journalists, and anyone else who needs a detailed understanding of China’s espionage operations and tactics.

Topic Focus: Espionage

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Description: This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and important operations in the history of China’s espionage organs, and links to an extensive online glossary of Chinese Language intelligence and security terms.

Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil present an unprecedented look into the murky world of Chinese espionage both past and present, enabling a better understanding of how pervasive and important its influence is, both in China and abroad.

Topic Focus: Espionage

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Description: In this thoroughly updated and revised edition of Counterintelligence Theory and Practice, Hank Prunckun provides all of the elements required for a successful counterintelligence operation from both an academic and a practitioner’s point of view. It offers an advanced understanding of the underlying theory that supports the art and science of the craft, and examines the challenges and practicalities of defensive and offensive counterintelligence. Designed for students in intelligence studies as well as professional training classes, this text explores issues related to national security, military, law enforcement, and corporate as well as private affairs.

Topic Focus: Counterintelligence

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Sub Title: Assessment and Mitigation of Risk

Description: This book is all about assessment and mitigation of insider threat risks. This book provides emergent knowledge relating to physical, cyber, and human risk mitigation in a practical and readable approach for the corporate environment. It presents and discusses practical applications of risk management techniques along with useable practical policy change options. This practical organizational security management approach examines multiple aspects of security to protect against physical, cyber, and human risk. A practical more tactical focus includes managing vulnerabilities and applying countermeasures. The book guides readers to a greater depth of understanding and action-oriented options.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Topic Focus: Investigation

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Sub Title: A Philosophical approach to information security awareness behaviour and culture

Description: “Re-thinking the Human Factor” is not a checklist but a reflective guide that divides readers into those who will love or hate it. Designed to be read in a day, it encourages readers to rethink employee education and awareness through questions, scenarios, and insights into human behavior and culture. The book promotes a philosophical approach, emphasizing the need to design awareness and security measures with an understanding of human nature to embed security into organizational culture.

Topic Focus: Cyber Awareness

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Sub Title: How To Protect Information Business Integrity in the Modern World

Description: Counterintelligence for Corporate Environments, Volume I” introduces comprehensive methodologies to enhance corporate security and operations. It emphasizes the crucial role of intelligence in organizational survival and protection.

Topic Focus: Counterintelligence

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Sub Title: How To Protect Information Business Integrity in the Modern World

Description: Volume II presents innovative strategies adapted from intelligence and military tactics, aimed at improving corporate security. The book equips managers, security officers, and consultants with advanced counterintelligence models to address modern threats effectively.

Topic Focus: Counterintelligence

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Description: “Deception: Counterdeception and Counterintelligence” offers a practical guide to understanding and implementing deception in intelligence operations. Authors Robert M. Clark and William L. Mitchell use case-based exercises to train operational planners in building deception campaigns and intelligence analysts in detecting them. The book explores new deception channels like social media and covers multichannel deception across various domains. Practical exercises and assignments enhance critical thinking, making it an invaluable resource for both individual and team learning.

Topic Focus: Counterintelligence

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Sub Title: How To Identify, Address And Shape The Human Element Of The Threat Within Your Businesses In Seven Successful Practices

Description: Protecting Your Business From Insider Threats In Seven Effective Steps helps the reader to really understand their vulnerabilities to a most likely internal threat that may be happening in their organisation right now and importantly how to address and mitigate it as effective as possible.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Description: This groundbreaking book explores the science of human behavior, examining our capacity for both violence and kindness. It traces the layers of causation behind our actions and how biology influences war, peace, and morality. It offers an insightful look into what makes us human.

Topic Focus: Human Behaviour

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Sub Title: Prevention, Detection, Mitigation and Deterrence

Description: This book outlines a step-by-step path for developing an insider threat program within any organization, focusing on management and employee engagement, as well as ethical, legal, and privacy concerns. In addition, it includes tactics on how to collect, correlate, and visualize potential risk indicators into a seamless system for protecting an organization’s critical assets from malicious, complacent, and ignorant insiders. Insider Threat presents robust mitigation strategies that will interrupt the forward motion of a potential insider who intends to do harm to a company or its employees, as well as an understanding of supply chain risk and cyber security, as they relate to insider threat.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: A Guide to Understanding, Detecting, and Defending Against the Enemy from Within

Description: “Insider Threat – A Guide to Understanding, Detecting, and Defending Against the Enemy from Within” emphasizes building a security culture based on international best practices to mitigate insider threats. It provides quick fixes and long-term strategies for an effective insider threat program, detailing organizational traits of victims, stages of malicious attacks, and steps for success. The book advocates a three-tier security culture and covers risk mitigation, training, monitoring, auditing, and response to suspicious behaviors. It aligns security measures with ISO 27001, ISO 27002, and NIST SP 800-53 standards, addressing risk assessment, staff screening, defense layering, penetration testing, remote access control, and supply chain security.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Description: “Insider Threats” explores the significant risks posed by trusted employees within high-security organizations who have access to sensitive information and materials. The book features detailed case studies from various institutions, including biological research labs, nuclear power plants, and the U.S. Army, illustrating the devastating impact insiders can have. Authors Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan highlight cognitive and organizational biases that cause institutions to underestimate these threats. They also analyze past failures to provide valuable lessons for improving security practices. The book uniquely addresses the potential for insiders to aid terrorist efforts, especially in acquiring fissile material or sabotaging nuclear facilities. Contributions from experts across different fields enrich the analysis, making the book a crucial resource for any high-security organization.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Sub Title: Former CIA Offices Teach You How To Persuade Anyone To Tell All

Description: Former CIA agents and authors of Spy the Lie provide a step-by-step guide with thrilling anecdotes and easy instructions to elicit the truth from anyone, using a methodology developed for counterterrorism and criminal investigations that encourages short-term thinking over long-term ramifications of lying.

Topic Focus: Human Behaviour

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Sub Title: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

Description: Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero are world-class deception detectors as former CIA officers. Spy the Lie tells the riveting narrative of how they used Houston’s deception detection system in counterterrorism and criminal investigations and how we may use it in our daily lives.

Topic Focus: Human Behaviour

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Description: This book is the first government or non-government-sponsored account of China’s technology acquisitions.

Based on authentic materials and rigors study, the book reveals China’s technical advancement through others’ successes. China has used sophisticated methods to find foreign inventions, steal them, and turn them into weapons and competitive commodities without paying their owners for decades. Recently, the NSA director termed it “the greatest transfer of wealth in history”.

This book, written by two of America’s top government analysts and a Chinese cyber network expert, details these transfer mechanisms in detail, providing context and depth not found elsewhere. The authors place the new research in historical context and then examine the People’s Republic of China’s policy support for economic espionage, clandestine technology transfers, cyberspace theft, and its impact on the US’s future using previously unexploited Chinese language sources.

Chinese politics, Asian security studies, US defense, foreign policy, and IR students will enjoy this book.

Topic Focus: Espionage

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Sub Title: How to Prevent, Detect and Respond To Information Technology Crimes (Theft, Sabotage, Fraud)

Description: Since 2001, the CERT® Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute has studied over 700 insider cyber crimes, including espionage and theft of trade secrets. The CERT® Guide to Insider Threats offers practical insights and countermeasures for executives, managers, security officers, and staff across private, government, and military sectors. It addresses malicious actions by current and former employees, contractors, partners, outsourcers, and cloud vendors, covering IT sabotage, intellectual property theft, and fraud. The book details crime profiles, motivations, methods, organizational issues, and warning signs to help prevent or detect incidents early. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing insider threats throughout the software development life cycle, enhancing existing security tools, and preparing for sophisticated attacks. Ultimately, it provides actionable recommendations for improving organizational security against insider threats.

Topic Focus: Insider Threats

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Description: This book provides the tools you need to protect both your employees and yourself from a variety of threats. Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach examines stalking, insider threats, and workplace violence, revealing the best ways to reduce risk and manage emergencies. It includes numerous examples that show recommended practices in action and provides detailed interviewing methods that can increase the efficiency of current strategies.

Topic Focus: Risk Management

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Sub Title: Why Fraud Plagues America’s Health Care System

Description: Criminal fraud must be considered in health care reform debates due to significant, yet unknown, losses from the nation’s trillion-dollar health care budget. Malcolm Sparrow, a fraud control expert, highlights rampant and largely unchecked fraud within the health care industry, warning it will worsen without changes in priorities, detection strategies, and technology use. Contrary to popular belief, Sparrow argues that electronic claims processing could increase fraud, and managed care could heighten health risks. His final section offers crucial recommendations for policymakers and those interested in fraud control.

Topic Focus: Fraud

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