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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

Elements of a vulnerability strategy

There are several elements that have to work in unison and that are integral to the success of your vulnerability management system. These elements include:

  1. People: The team working on the security issues and the employees involved in the processes and plans should have extensive knowledge and expertise on matters dealing with vulnerabilities. In addition, they need to have great communication abilities that can help them coordinate with all other business people that may be affected by the security issues they may uncover, as well as the processes they will set up to address the identified issues.
  2. Process: The process of conducting assessments can be done by anyone. However, for value addition, the process needs to have additional features such as a setup that will allow for follow-ups on the assessment data and that can make the data usable. The process also needs to be precise and reproducible to allow other people to repeat...