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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

Training people to protect against common hacking techniques

In a broad sense, social engineering techniques have changed little over the years. The techniques have evolved and become more effective over time as attackers continue to hone their craft. However, the core techniques change little because they are effective.

The first thing to understand about social engineering is the techniques are not designed to exploit technology, they are designed to exploit people. Social engineering techniques depend on the study and exploitation of strong human emotions such as fear or hope. Effective social engineers study human psychology and try to implement techniques that will produce a predictable human response. They know how the human brain works and understand their victims are more prone to making mistakes if they are thinking quickly and relying on emotions or survival instincts to guide their actions rather than using the rational parts of their brain that can only be accessed...