Praise for the First Edition of The IDA Pro Book

"If you are looking for the most thorough and accurate IDA Pro book, you are holding it in your hands. The long awaited book from Chris Eagle is packed with tons of information. Beginners will find it helpful because it covers the basics [and] experienced users will discover new and powerful aspects of IDA Pro. Among other things, you will learn how to deal with obfuscated code, analyze new file formats and processors, [and] write plugins and scripts. I wholeheartedly recommend it to all IDA Pro users."

—Ilfak Guilfanov, creator of IDA Pro

"This is the densest, most accurate, and, by far, the best IDA Pro book ever released."

—Pierre Vandevenne, Owner and CEO of DataRescue SA

"Chris Eagle delivers a very concise, well laid out book in The IDA Pro Book. The step by step examples, and much needed detail of all aspects of IDA alone make this book a good choice...I honestly think, like IDA, it will be the industry standard on one of the more intimidating applications in the security and reverse engineering world."

—Cody Pierce, TippingPoint DVLabs (Read More)

"Chris Eagle is clearly an excellent educator, as he makes the sometimes very dense and technically involved material easy to read and understand and also chooses his examples well."

—Dino Dai Zovi, Trail of Bits blog (Read More)

"I highly recommend this book to anyone from the person looking to begin using IDA Pro to the seasoned veteran. There truly is something there for everyone."

—Dustin Trammell, Metasploit Developer (Read More)

"Apart from being a great source of information and ideas on how to leverage IDA's power, the writing is also particularly solid, with few or no errors, which is a notable exception to many technical books published nowadays."

—Association for Computing Machinery (Read More)

"Unlike the two other books I've read on IDA Pro this book has no fluff or filler, its solid information! The funny thing when comparing it to the other...IDA books is it's thicker than both combined, and contains an exponentially larger amount of information."

—Eric Hulse, technology blogger (Read More)

"This book does definitely get a strong buy recommendation from me. It's well written and it covers IDA Pro more comprehensively than any other written document I am aware of (including the actual IDA Pro Manual). Furthermore I'm confident that everybody, even people who used IDA Pro for a decade, will learn something from the book and can use it as a reference in daily work."

—Sebastian Porst, Senior Software Security Engineer at Microsoft (Read More)

"Chris Eagle's The IDA Pro Book provides a significantly better understanding not of just IDA Pro itself, but of the entire RE process. There are little gems littered throughout the book that bring in real-life experience and knowledge that you don't always get from other books instructing you in the use of an application."

—The Ethical Hacker Network (Read More)

The IDA Pro Book is an "excellent book! Recommended if you are into Reverse Engineering and not only specific for IDA. Well written with lots of examples. Really enjoyed it."

—Reverse Engineering Mac OS X blog (Read More)

"Should you buy this book? If you already have (some) RE knowledge and plan on using IDA (even if only the free version), the answer is a resounding yes."

—Hype-Free (Read More)