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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

Time-honored best practices that could stop most breaches

The following best practices are well known in the security community and time-honored. We know these best practices are effective in making the work of attackers far more difficult. In most cases, only the most sophisticated actors could defeat these countermeasures on a large scale. However, they are rarely implemented.

First, let's examine the Concept of Least Privilege.

Concept of Least Privilege

The Concept of Least Privilege, sometimes referred to as the Principle of Least Privilege, states that a user should not be granted any permissions beyond the minimum they need to perform their job function. While this sounds simple and rational, implementing least privilege is very difficult. Most organizations don't maintain a list of specific permissions each user needs to perform their job function. Second, when trying to implement least privilege, the default mode is blocking. As a result, if a mistake is...