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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 5: Protecting against Common Attacks by Partnering with End Users

If people are the weakest link in an organization, and cybersecurity attacks consist of people exploiting people, it stands to reason that enabling your people to be assets to your security posture is a good thing. Traditional models of annual security awareness training are useless and obsolete. To actually train people, the training must be frequent and realistic. Also, types of training such as simulations and tabletop exercises help to ensure people know what is expected of them and what they should do to fulfill their obligations.

In this chapter, you will learn how an organization can partner with end users to help improve their security posture. You will learn how to structure employee training programs, how to make your end users active participants in the program, and how to train executive and incident response teams to work together seamlessly to execute a coherent response to a potential incident...