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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

Securing identities and granting access

Securing identities and granting access are critical functions for a security program. It is always your responsibility to grant access to systems and information to identities and to build controls to ensure the people requesting access through a login are who they say they are. We discussed Multifactor Authentication (MFA) in Chapter 4, Protecting People, Information, and Systems with Timeless Best Practices, so we will not discuss it in depth during this chapter. However, we will briefly discuss the importance of verifying identities.

Verifying identities

It is important for every organization to have the ability to identify who is requesting access and to verify they are who they say they are. In a world where most people access resources remotely, and many resources are accessible from anywhere because they are cloud based, it is more important than ever to verify identities. Also, with the prevalence of password theft, MFA is a critical...