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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

Section 2 – Building an Effective Program

This section is dedicated to building on the foundational knowledge in Section 1 to build or improve an information security program. There are some timeless information security best practices that are as relevant today as they were decades ago. Interestingly, these timeless best practices are the ones that are routinely ignored in security programs. Next, it is important to address the weakest link in the program by building an effective security awareness program. Most companies perform security awareness training. Few succeed in educating their workforce. We will explore what they’re doing wrong and how to do it better. Finally, there are additional capabilities that should be deployed to secure the modern enterprise that may not have been necessary previously.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 4, Protecting People, Information, and Systems with Timeless Best Practices
  • Chapter 5...