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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

Tabletop exercises

I have had the opportunity to conduct numerous tabletop exercises with executive teams of different types of organizations of all shapes and sizes. The teams all came from different places in terms of awareness and maturity, but all of them provided value for the participants. It is one thing to have a plan for how to respond to a breach. It is quite another to ensure everyone has clarity on their role and the confidence to execute in a high-stress situation.

Tabletop exercises should not be conducted as an evaluation, they should instead be conducted as a learning opportunity. The first mistake I see people make is to run them as a test of whether people know what to do. This causes unnecessary stress and limits learning. I find it to be more effective to step through the response to a real-world scenario while asking participants to challenge the plan and find better ways to respond. We have found meaningful insights from team members going through the process...