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Network Security Strategies

By : Aditya Mukherjee
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Network Security Strategies

By: Aditya Mukherjee

Overview of this book

With advanced cyber attacks severely impacting industry giants and the constantly evolving threat landscape, organizations are adopting complex systems to maintain robust and secure environments. Network Security Strategies will help you get well-versed with the tools and techniques required to protect any network environment against modern cyber threats. You’ll understand how to identify security vulnerabilities across the network and how to effectively use a variety of network security techniques and platforms. Next, the book will show you how to design a robust network that provides top-notch security to protect against traditional and new evolving attacks. With the help of detailed solutions and explanations, you'll be able to monitor networks skillfully and identify potential risks. Finally, the book will cover topics relating to thought leadership and the management aspects of network security. By the end of this network security book, you'll be well-versed in defending your network from threats and be able to consistently maintain operational efficiency, security, and privacy in your environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Network Security Concepts, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
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Section 2: Network Security Testing and Auditing
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Section 3: Threat Management and Proactive Security Operations

Summary

In this chapter, you understood the essence of what it means to develop, sustain, and initiate cyclic improvements to form a continuous and effective threat management program. We began with a few threat management concepts, followed by solutions to actively manage risks and threats. This was followed by some details on addressing security leadership concerns. All of the segments we discussed in this chapter may not always be under your purview, but it's important to understand and acknowledge the fact that they are crucial parts to constructing a formidable security posture for any organization, irrespective of its size, business vertical, and operations.

You can now leverage this knowledge to inculcate cyber threat management principals such as risk assessment, strategic governance, and cyber resilience, all of which are long-term programs aimed at future-proofing the organization from evolving cyber threats. You can also implement actionable threat management operational...