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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

The most important threat vector

Email is the most important business communication method. The mainstream adoption of fax machines and then email changed the business world and greatly accelerated economic activity. Email is largely responsible for shrinking the globe. Before email and fax machines, if a US company wanted to communicate with a company in India, the team would either need to make very expensive trips or phone calls or send messages through traditional mail and wait 30 days for a response. The fax machine enabled near-instant communication, but it was an imperfect technology. Email allowed messages to be sent around the globe in 30 seconds, which greatly accelerated the global business cycle. It could be said that globalization as we know it today would not be possible without email.

Since email is so widely used and critical to business operations, it is also the most attacked part of a corporate infrastructure. Because email is a business-critical application...