Christopher Clarke

Cybersecurity is stressful. Your coloring book shouldn't be.

The SOC Analyst Coloring Book is a collection of cybersecurity humor, relatable chaos, and stress-relieving coloring pages created for the people who spend their days defending the network.

If you've ever investigated an alert at 3:00 a.m., chased lateral movement across a network, responded to an "URGENT!!!" ticket, explained why MFA really does matter, heard someone say "Just whitelist it," or discovered that the problem was DNS after all...

This book is for you.

Inside you'll find 50 detailed cybersecurity-inspired illustrations featuring the wonderfully chaotic world of SOC analysts, security engineers, sysadmins, threat hunters, incident responders, penetration testers, and IT professionals.

From ransomware and phishing attacks to incident-response war rooms, server rooms, late-night calls, endless coffee, impossible tickets, and the occasional security-support dog, every page turns familiar cybersecurity frustrations into something you can laugh at and color.

Whether you're decompressing after an incident, looking for a funny cybersecurity gift, decorating the SOC, or simply trying to survive another day of alerts...

Grab some colored pencils, close the tickets, and color the chaos away.

Because sometimes you just need to color IT out.

Format: Paperback

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The alert fires at 3:14 a.m. Do you know what happens next?

Most organizations don't build a security operations function on purpose. They assemble one by accident, out of whatever tools got purchased and whoever happened to be on call, and they find out how well that worked during the exact incident it was supposed to prevent.

Building a SOC from Scratch is a practical, no-nonsense guide to doing it deliberately instead. Drawing on real experience standing up and running security operations across managed environments, this book walks through every real decision involved in the build: who to hire and in what order, the playbooks and escalation paths that actually hold up under pressure, the technology worth paying for versus the noise, and the metrics that tell you whether any of it is working.

This isn't theory borrowed from a framework. It's a field guide for the person who's just been handed the job of building security operations with a budget that doesn't match the ambition and a leadership team that still pictures a room full of monitors.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

Build the right team, in the right order, without hiring for a role that doesn't exist yet
Design detection engineering and playbooks that survive contact with a real incident
Make practical, honest decisions on technology, budgeting, and scaling
Avoid the burnout and turnover patterns that quietly wreck most security teams
Build a SOC that keeps working long after you've moved on to something else
Whether you're standing up a SOC for the first time, inheriting one that was never really built, or trying to figure out why the one you have keeps missing what matters, this book gives you the decisions to make and the order to make them in, before the next 3 a.m. call arrives.

Format: Kindle & Paperback

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