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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Third Edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Book Image

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Third Edition

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By: Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Third Edition will bring you up to speed with the key aspects of threat assessment and security hygiene, the current threat landscape and its challenges, and how to maintain a strong security posture. In this carefully revised new edition, you will learn about the Zero Trust approach and the initial Incident Response process. You will gradually become familiar with Red Team tactics, where you will learn basic syntax for commonly used tools to perform the necessary operations. You will also learn how to apply newer Red Team techniques with powerful tools. Simultaneously, Blue Team tactics are introduced to help you defend your system from complex cyber-attacks. This book provides a clear, in-depth understanding of attack/defense methods as well as patterns to recognize irregular behavior within your organization. Finally, you will learn how to analyze your network and address malware, while becoming familiar with mitigation and threat detection techniques. By the end of this cybersecurity book, you will have discovered the latest tools to enhance the security of your system, learned about the security controls you need, and understood how to carry out each step of the incident response process.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Why security hygiene should be your number one priority

On January 23rd, 2020, Wuhan, a city with more than 11 million people, was placed in lockdown due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Following this major event, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on January 30th. Threat actors actively monitor current world events, and this was an opportunity for them to start crafting their next attack. On January 28th, the threat actors behind Emotet started to exploit the curiosity and lack of information about the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) to start a major spam campaign, where emails were sent pretending to be official notifications sent by a disability welfare provider and public health centers. The perceived intent of the email was to warn the recipient about the virus and to entice the user to download a file that contained preventive measures. The success of this campaign led other threat actors to follow in Emotet’s footsteps, and on February...