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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

Disaster recovery plan

The disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented set of processes and procedures that are carried out in the effort to recover the IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster. Because of many organizations’ dependency on IT, it has become mandatory for organizations to have a comprehensive and well-formulated DRP. Organizations are not able to avoid all disasters; the best they can do is plan ahead for how they will recover when disasters inevitably happen.

The objective of the DRP is to respond to an immediate or specific emergency that threatens the continuity of business operations when IT operations have been partially or fully stopped. There are several benefits of having a sound disaster recovery plan:

  • The organization has a sense of security. The recovery plan assures it of its continued ability to function in the face of a disaster.
  • The organization reduces delays in the recovery process. Without a sound plan, it is easy...