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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
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Section 3 – Solutions to Common Problems

Section 3 – Solutions to Common Problems

A common question I get from business executives is, “If we continue to spend more on security every year, why do we continue to see more breaches?” Part of the answer to the question is what was covered in the first chapter: the economics of cybercrime are not static and while the cost of cybercrime is rising, the benefit to the attacker is rising faster. Outside the pure economics of the situation though, there are several common challenges organizations face. Fortunately, there are solutions available for these problems. Furthermore, automation can play an important role in solving some key challenges and controlling long-term costs while building a maturing program. Finally, in this section, we will discuss how to keep yourself and your family safe at home.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 7, Difficulty Securing the Modern Enterprise (with Solutions!)
  • Chapter 8, Harnessing...