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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

Active Sensors

Now that your network is segmented, you need to actively monitor it to detect suspicious activities and potential threats and take actions based on that. Your security posture won’t be fully completed if you don’t have a good detection system; this means having the right sensors distributed across the network, monitoring the activities. The Blue Team should take advantage of modern detection technologies that create a profile of the user and computer in order to better understand anomalies and deviations in normal operations. With this information, preventative actions could be taken.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Detection capabilities
  • Intrusion detection systems
  • Intrusion prevention systems
  • Behavior analytics on-premises
  • Behavior analytics in a hybrid cloud

We’ll start by discussing the importance of detection systems and what they can provide.