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Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance

By : Dr. Erdal Ozkaya, Milad Aslaner
Book Image

Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance

By: Dr. Erdal Ozkaya, Milad Aslaner

Overview of this book

Organizations have always been a target of cybercrime. Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance teaches you how to successfully defend your system against common cyber threats, making sure your financial services are a step ahead in terms of security. The book begins by providing an overall description of cybersecurity, guiding you through some of the most important services and technologies currently at risk from cyber threats. Once you have familiarized yourself with the topic, you will explore specific technologies and threats based on case studies and real-life scenarios. As you progress through the chapters, you will discover vulnerabilities and bugs (including the human risk factor), gaining an expert-level view of the most recent threats. You'll then explore information on how you can achieve data and infrastructure protection. In the concluding chapters, you will cover recent and significant updates to procedures and configurations, accompanied by important details related to cybersecurity research and development in IT-based financial services. By the end of the book, you will have gained a basic understanding of the future of information security and will be able to protect financial services and their related infrastructures.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Responding to Service Disruption

Organizations need to assume that they either have been or will be compromised. There's no organization that's immune against a cyberattack. On average it takes an organization up to 180 days till they discover that they've been compromised. That means that, for 180 days, your system is at risk without you knowing about it. Many organizations focus on purchasing the latest technologies but, when a cyberattack happens and the service is disrupted, they wonder why the technology didn't protect, detect, and/or respond to it. What these organizations forget is that cybersecurity is based on technology, people, and processes:

Technology is only as good as the humans responsible for it. People are only as good as they are trained to be. Processes are only as good as they're tested and optimized for. Organizations can have the...