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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)
1
Section 1 – Modern Security Challenges
5
Section 2 – Building an Effective Program
9
Section 3 – Solutions to Common Problems

Chapter 1

  1. What makes cybercrime attractive for criminals?

Cybercrime is a very profitable business model with relatively few risks for the attacker. The proceeds from cybercrime grow every year and it is uncommon that an attacker is caught and made to face consequences for their actions. (Section: Why cybercrime is here to stay – a profitable business model)

  1. Why is cybercrime damaging to companies and the larger economy?

Identity theft is a global problem costing the economy trillions of dollars per year. Intellectual property theft can be very damaging to individual companies as detailed in the American Semiconductor case. In some cases, such as the Colonial Pipeline attack, cybercrime can also cause outages in critical infrastructure. (Section: The macro-economic cost of cybercrime)

  1. What are governments doing to convince organizations to harden their defenses?

Regulations such as the GDPR in the European Union and the CCPA in California...