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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 2

  1. Define well-meaning insiders and describe how security technology can support them.

A well-meaning insider is someone who is trying to perform their job function but could make a mistake that exposes the organization to risk. Technology can be used to ensure that any mistakes they make do not cause irreparable harm to the organization. (Section: The three types of insider threats)

  1. Describe some common social engineering techniques in your own words. Which is the most common?

The types of social engineering techniques covered in the chapter were phishing, spear phishing, baiting, scareware, tailgating, shoulder surfing, and pretexting. Phishing is the most common. (Section: People exploiting people)

  1. Describe some types of malicious software in your own words.

The types of malicious software covered in the chapter were viruses, worms, trojans, ransomware, and spyware. (Section: People exploiting people)

  1. What does lateral movement...