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Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

By : Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Book Image

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)

What can be learned from the psychology of hackers?

From the discussions above, hacking can be better understood by looking at it from a psychological perspective. The traits of hackers, as presented, show that maintaining healthy social lives can help reduce cybercrime. People that lack social lives or like to lead isolated lives could be checked up on to make sure that they do not fall into cybercrime. It has been said that hackers are both patient and determined. These two traits have far-reaching implications for cybersecurity approaches in organizations. Since hackers will not relent easily, and will also take their time to find a vulnerability in the organization, it is prudent for organizations to adopt cyber resilience rather than cyber defense. Unlike cyber defense, cyber resilience ensures that an organization is protected from attackers, and, in the event that an attack...