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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

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

"When dealing with cloud vendors: trust, but verify."
- Russian proverb

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the largest cloud service providers in the world, leading the charts with about 32.3% of market share according to a report from Canalys. According to AWS, five foundational pillars together form the AWS Well-Architected framework. These pillars are important to discuss as they are universal principles that can and should be included in any operational setup. They are as follows:

  • Operational excellence: Focuses on the capability to operationalize and monitor infrastructure in order to deliver business services
  • Security: Focuses on the capability required for protecting business assets such as information and systems via risk modeling, assessment, and implementation of mitigation strategies
  • Reliability: Focuses on the ability of a system to recover from a cyber disruption by acquiring computing resources and mitigating the loss of service
  • Performance...