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Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

By : Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

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By: Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

It's not a secret that there is a huge talent gap in the cybersecurity industry. Everyone is talking about it including the prestigious Forbes Magazine, Tech Republic, CSO Online, DarkReading, and SC Magazine, among many others. Additionally, Fortune CEO's like Satya Nadella, McAfee's CEO Chris Young, Cisco's CIO Colin Seward along with organizations like ISSA, research firms like Gartner too shine light on it from time to time. This book put together all the possible information with regards to cybersecurity, why you should choose it, the need for cyber security and how can you be part of it and fill the cybersecurity talent gap bit by bit. Starting with the essential understanding of security and its needs, we will move to security domain changes and how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to secure systems. Later, this book will walk you through all the skills and tools that everyone who wants to work as security personal need to be aware of. Then, this book will teach readers how to think like an attacker and explore some advanced security methodologies. Lastly, this book will deep dive into how to build practice labs, explore real-world use cases and get acquainted with various cybersecurity certifications. By the end of this book, readers will be well-versed with the security domain and will be capable of making the right choices in the cybersecurity field.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Cybersecurity advice and reliable information sources

Another important category of cybersecurity intelligence is getting credible alerts about new attacks and advice on how to guard against becoming a victim to cybercriminals. The following are some of the sites that offer this information:

  • Krebs on Security (https://krebsonsecurity.com/): Provides details on cybersecurity news and investigations into cybercrime and related incidences. The website offers lots of updated information regarding happenings in cybersecurity. For instance, at the time of writing, the top post explained how Google was able to stop all phishing attacks against employees as of 2017. As detailed in the post, the company simply got rid of passwords and instead offered employees physical security keys and one-time access codes. The relevance of the post was that Google was going to share this solution with...