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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 3: Anatomy of an Attack

Many people are familiar with reports of attacks that have happened with some details about the extent of the damage resulting from the attack. Most people, however, aren't familiar with the process of how an attack gets from the reconnaissance phase through to the accomplishment of the attacker's final objective. First, we will cover the types of threat actors that exist. Second, we will look in detail at how different types of attacks unfold based on the objective. Understanding the attack techniques and how they vary by objective can help defenders build more meaningful defenses to specific threats. Finally, we will explore the dark web economy for specialized skills that make it easier for unsophisticated actors to launch sophisticated attacks.

Gaining the skills necessary to identify different threat actor groups and the types of attacks they favor will enable you to identify like adversaries you will encounter and defenses to better...