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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

The digital world is a dangerous place, but there are steps you can take to keep yourself and your loved ones safe online. In this chapter, you have learned about the permanence of what you post online, the façade of social media, and the dangers lurking online in the form of bullies, predators, and companies who will seek to profit off misery. You have learned about password managers, multifactor authentication, and password complexity, which are tools to help you keep your accounts safe and prevent you from falling into common security traps. Finally, you learned about the importance of keeping your personal information safe by not publishing it online.

This is the end of our journey. By this point, you are ready to make a difference in the field of cybersecurity. You understand more about the problem and ways to formulate solutions. It is my hope that reading this book has interested you in this field and that you will build on these ideas to make every organization...