Physical Security

Chris Voss teaches technique; Mickey Bergman does the job. His account of unofficial hostage diplomacy is really a manual on building a channel neither side can acknowledge.

The definitive account of Stuxnet, read here as an operational case study: how attackers crossed an air gap, borrowed trusted credentials, and made a control room see normal.

A general and a historian survey seventy years of war and find the same failure repeated: leaders who misread a conflict at the outset and never adapt.

Gavin de Becker spent a career predicting violence. His argument: the unease you cannot yet explain is data. Our review: pre-incident indicators, manufactured trust, and what they mean for diligence.

In the 1950s the CIA hired a stage magician to write a manual on deception. Melton and Wallace reproduce it — and its lesson on attention is the mechanism behind pretexting.

Jenny Radcliffe is hired to break into her clients' buildings, and she rarely touches a lock. People Hacker shows why the human layer is the one nobody tests.