The Field Manual Series

Reference you can carry into the field.

Eight pocket manuals distilling the tools, commands, and tradecraft of modern security work — from purple-team operations to Linux, containers, and CISSP. Written by a career operator. Built to be grabbed mid-engagement.

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4.7 1,900+ Amazon ratings across the series

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The reference, always within reach.

No browser. No man pages. Just the commands and tactics you need, organized to find fast — the way every operator wishes their notes were.

~/ops — field-manuals

tim@ops:~$ fm list --series

tim@ops:~$

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A complete reference shelf

One series. Every side of the fight.

Offense, defense, and the systems they run on — each manual a focused, carryable reference. Pick your domain.

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Eight manuals, one shelf.

Color-coded by domain. Every title links straight to its Amazon page.

Purple Team Tools

From reference to testing

Continuous web security, simplified.

Purple Team Tools provides developer-friendly, automated web vulnerability scanning for websites and web applications you own or are authorized to test. Run web application, network, TLS/SSL, and CMS checks, then review normalized findings with severity ratings and downloadable reports.

OWASP Top 10 Network discovery TLS/SSL analysis CMS checks

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About the author

Written by a career operator.

Tim Bryant is a senior security executive and U.S. Air Force veteran — currently SVP of Information Security at Hilltop Holdings, and formerly Technical Director of the Cyber National Mission Force at U.S. Cyber Command. The manuals grew out of the references he wished he'd had in the field.

CISSP GCIA GCFA USAF Veteran MBA, Texas A&M

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Eight manuals, one shelf.

Continuous web security, simplified.

Trusted on the job.

Written by a career operator.

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