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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)
1
Section 1: Network Security Concepts, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
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Section 2: Network Security Testing and Auditing
10
Section 3: Threat Management and Proactive Security Operations

Understanding how threat hunting works

At its core, threat hunting can be very much like real-life hunting. It requires an exceptional set of skills such as patience, observation, reasoning, and tracking variations that are different from the norm. Generally speaking, most organizations have some level of defense or security mitigations placed in and around the environment based on the understanding of the threats that they most commonly face or are susceptible to.

But with the constantly evolving nature of the threats and tactics used by attackers, it's likely that some may not be detected due to these mitigations that are in place. Hence, it's imperative that we have a process in place to actively and proactively hunt for threats in our environment based on attack patterns, network/application anomalies, and hunt hypotheses.

The objective of threat hunting is to actively identify existing compromises and threats that are otherwise unknown to deployed security capabilities...