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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

Chapter 8: Harnessing Automation Opportunities

The cybersecurity skills gap is real, and it is growing. Based on demographics, it is likely to continue to get worse. Unless the near future holds a historical influx of new security professionals, automation will become increasingly necessary to meet the information security challenges we will face. Further, attackers have access to the same technology as us, and if they make better use of emerging technologies than we do, they will have an advantage. Capabilities such as machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are already in use by bad actors to evade countermeasures and learn how to emulate the behavior of legitimate users. However, most organizations rely solely upon human analysis to review and classify potential incidents. As a result, the mean time to detect threats is months to years on average in most organizations. Modern technology enables large-scale data transfers in seconds and minutes. If there is this gap between...