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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 9: Cybersecurity at Home

I have dedicated most of my career to helping organizations protect what matters most to them. I would be remiss if I did not include some best practices for protecting those that matter most to you, your family and friends. Our children live in a very different world than the one we grew up in. During their formative years when they are developing their emotional systems and prone to making mistakes, they inhabit a world where they are judged against an impossible standard driven by social media, and their mistakes can be publicized and live forever. We must be vigilant if we want to protect our children.

Similarly, our parents are coping with a world that is very different from the one they are accustomed to. There are countless scams targeted at senior citizens around the world. While we do not need to make our parents cybersecurity experts, there are some best practices we can share with them to help them stay safe in an unfamiliar environment...