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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 Labs

Traditional teaching methods have been observed to be ineffective for cybersecurity training. Theoretical approaches just give details on some aspects of cybersecurity, but they rarely impart skills to the learner. This is why hands-on experience is required, so that a learner can apply the principles they have learned to a real-world environment. Hands-on training allows for skills to be learned more efficiently and learners can appreciate the importance of all the tiny details. For instance, a flaw in the configuration of a firewall could lead to a network breach.

The IT world is agile and requires people to rapidly acquire new knowledge. It is likely that you will keep acquiring new skills for the better part of your cybersecurity career as you adjust to new market trends. It is, therefore, of great importance to know the avenues that you can use to acquire...