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The Cybersecurity Playbook for Modern Enterprises

By : Jeremy Wittkop
Book Image

The Cybersecurity Playbook for Modern Enterprises

By: Jeremy Wittkop

Overview of this book

Security is everyone's responsibility and for any organization, the focus should be to educate their employees about the different types of security attacks and how to ensure that security is not compromised. This cybersecurity book starts by defining the modern security and regulatory landscape, helping you understand the challenges related to human behavior and how attacks take place. You'll then see how to build effective cybersecurity awareness and modern information security programs. Once you've learned about the challenges in securing a modern enterprise, the book will take you through solutions or alternative approaches to overcome those issues and explain the importance of technologies such as cloud access security brokers, identity and access management solutions, and endpoint security platforms. As you advance, you'll discover how automation plays an important role in solving some key challenges and controlling long-term costs while building a maturing program. Toward the end, you'll also find tips and tricks to keep yourself and your loved ones safe from an increasingly dangerous digital world. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a holistic understanding of cybersecurity and how it evolves to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1 – Modern Security Challenges
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Section 2 – Building an Effective Program
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Section 3 – Solutions to Common Problems

Cybersecurity talent shortage

The cybersecurity talent shortage is massive and growing. Cybersecurity is one of the best career fields for young people to enter. It is not uncommon for entry-level cybersecurity specialists to get several raises in their first year and be making a six-figure income within 3 years. There are few, if any, career fields outside of cybersecurity that offer that level of advancement and income prospects. Yet, cybersecurity continues to fail to attract a talent pool that can keep up with the demand for professionals.

There are many potential underlying factors. Cybersecurity is still not as diverse as it should be. Cybersecurity teams rarely reflect the entirety of the community. Solving this problem will require cybersecurity as a discipline to appeal to more people. Part of that appeal is representation in leadership and outreach. Part of it is changing the public perception that cybersecurity is a technical field with only engineering roles.

There...