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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)

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)

This is another certification offered by CompTIA, to allow individuals to gain skills for behavioral analytics for networks and devices, so that they can prevent and detect cybersecurity threats. CySA+ is considered an intermediate-level cybersecurity analyst certification. This certification focuses on teaching you about intrusion-detection and response skills, along with some coverage of advanced persistent threats. You will be able to gain skills about how to perform data analysis on the threat data collected from various sources and interpret the results of your analysis to identify threats, risks, and vulnerabilities for your business and organization. You will also gain skills relating to how to use various threat-detection tools once you complete this training. This certification also meets the US DoD Directive 8570.01-M requirements...