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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

Multifactor authentication

Consumer multifactor authentication involves verifying your identity using a text message to your phone or a verification sent to a mobile application. While multifactor authentication can be a hassle at times, it will prevent most attacks against your account. The result is any application or service that will allow you to purchase something or log into other applications should be protected by multifactor authentication. While that seems like a small subset of services, most services in common use will do one or both of those things.

Most actors looking to compromise a consumer account will not go through the hassle of trying to defeat multifactor authentication. This is especially true when there are so many targets who do not have it enabled. In some cases, such as most consumer banking applications and websites, multifactor authentication is required. In other cases, it is optional. In most cases, it should be enabled when it is an option.

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