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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

Capabilities necessary in the remote world

As the world continues to shift from an environment where people accessed systems locally in an office or a data center to a world where people primarily access systems and resources from remote locations such as their home office or a coffee shop, it is becoming increasingly apparent that information security systems must evolve. While many of the best practices we have discussed previously are relevant in all configurations, a number of additional best practices should be implemented to secure remote systems and remote users. The first best practice deals with how users are authenticated.

Factors of authentication

In Chapter 3, Anatomy of an Attack, we highlighted several attack types that are made easier for attackers to execute by single-factor authentication systems. Multifactor authentication techniques are often an effective countermeasure, especially when part of the attack chain involves account compromise. Many organizations...