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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, we took a brief look at some of the technical aspects that should be part of any organization's security strategy, whether this is threat intelligence, threat hunting, deception technology, or SIEM. The important aspect to understand here is that we can have all the technology in the world at our disposal, but making them work effectively and, more importantly, synchronously with the other platforms is very important. This is something that takes as much focus at the decision-making table as the technical groundwork.

By completing this chapter, you now understand the different processes and platforms that you can use as part of your cyber arsenal. You should now be able to recommend different solutions to your organization as per the need of the hour and fine-tune them for the best results, as well as showcase the business outcome and value proposition that's delivered as part of enhancing the proactive security detection and response capabilities at...