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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 6: Information Security for a Changing World

The world is changing quickly and some of the changes are inherently more secure, while others are less secure. Most changes are benign from a security perspective but require a different approach and render previous technologies and techniques obsolete. While we cannot abandon timeless information security best practices, failure to meet the challenges of a changing world can also result in catastrophe.

At a time where the security talent gap is reaching crisis levels, the changing technology landscape demands more from people who are already stretched thin. Understanding the modern threat landscape is a key element in building an effective security program and reducing the strain on overburdened teams. Trying to apply antiquated technologies and approaches to the modern world creates unnecessary work and stress for cybersecurity practitioners.

Meeting the challenges of today and tomorrow in a thoughtful way will help build...