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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)

Attack techniques

There's an urgent need for the financial services sector to modernize their security procedures, making sure that security procedures cover modern threats that are emerging particularly through the digital estate. Worldwide, many of the security procedures from banks are outdated and are useful only to fight against legacy threats. Because of the growing number of online transactions, it's therefore critical to re-evaluate security procedures and modernize them. In order to do that without the influence of scare marketing done by many security vendors, it's therefore critical to deeply understand the attack techniques and vulnerabilities that cybercriminals are using to disrupt the business. Most exploitation techniques are placed online, and end customers are lured into either downloading malware or running it directly from the web. With the malware...