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Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

By : Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

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By: Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

It's not a secret that there is a huge talent gap in the cybersecurity industry. Everyone is talking about it including the prestigious Forbes Magazine, Tech Republic, CSO Online, DarkReading, and SC Magazine, among many others. Additionally, Fortune CEO's like Satya Nadella, McAfee's CEO Chris Young, Cisco's CIO Colin Seward along with organizations like ISSA, research firms like Gartner too shine light on it from time to time. This book put together all the possible information with regards to cybersecurity, why you should choose it, the need for cyber security and how can you be part of it and fill the cybersecurity talent gap bit by bit. Starting with the essential understanding of security and its needs, we will move to security domain changes and how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to secure systems. Later, this book will walk you through all the skills and tools that everyone who wants to work as security personal need to be aware of. Then, this book will teach readers how to think like an attacker and explore some advanced security methodologies. Lastly, this book will deep dive into how to build practice labs, explore real-world use cases and get acquainted with various cybersecurity certifications. By the end of this book, readers will be well-versed with the security domain and will be capable of making the right choices in the cybersecurity field.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

EC-Council, Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)

EC-Council also offers another certification for individuals who wish to take up a career in the digital forensics space: Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator, commonly known as CHFI. As the demand for forensic investigators is at its peak with the rise in cyberattacks, this certification gives you the jump start to be one of those digital forensic investigators who helps the industry to find out evidence in a post-breach scenario. As mentioned in our earlier chapters, a digital forensic investigation is the process of identifying the evidence and analyzing it to create reports so that the findings can support the legal process to prosecute criminals, and so you can use the information to prevent future attacks. The CHFI certification will expose you to the concepts and processes of computer investigation and analysis...