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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)
1
Section 1 – Modern Security Challenges
5
Section 2 – Building an Effective Program
9
Section 3 – Solutions to Common Problems

Lack of continuing education

Cybersecurity awareness training is conducted in nearly 100% of organizations around the world. However, in my opinion, cybersecurity awareness training is conducted well in fewer than 10% of organizations around the world. Few organizations have a clear plan for what the training is intended to accomplish or how they will measure if the training was effective. If there are no metrics for the training, it should be assumed it wasn't effective. Also, few organizations have a clear goal for what they hope to accomplish.

In Chapter 5, Protecting against Common Attacks by Partnering with End Users, we discussed the process for creating an effective training program along with best practices for how the training should be delivered and reinforced. We will not repeat that content. Instead, we will address issues that make it difficult to maintain relevant skillsets in the modern security landscape. While these challenges apply to all employees, leaders...