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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

Summary

Automation is a necessary capability that will help us meet the staffing challenges of the modern world. While we can and should grow the cybersecurity workforce, that is a long-term solution. We will require effective solutions to meet challenges in the interim.

In this chapter, you have learned how to identify automation opportunities, along with a practical methodology to act upon those opportunities. You have learned about datasets and context and the ethical challenges posed by AI solutions. You have also learned how to test your solutions to ensure they are effective, and you have been given a brief idea of how attackers could leverage similar technologies against you to become more efficient and effective at what they do.

At this point in our journey, we have covered a wide range of topics relevant to protecting modern organizations. You now have the necessary understanding to look at the landscape and hopefully identify an area that appeals to you. For our final...