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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

Differences between vulnerability management and vulnerability assessment

The term vulnerability management can often be confused with vulnerability assessment. The discussion of vulnerability management is not possible without mentioning vulnerability assessment repeatedly. Vulnerability assessment is a subset of vulnerability management. However, there are clear differences between the two, and they will be highlighted in detail in this section:

  • As already mentioned, vulnerability assessment is a subset of vulnerability management. In the pursuit of effective vulnerability management, vulnerability assessment helps organizations determine the weaknesses in the system before they can come up with a comprehensive vulnerability management plan to address the identified issues. Therefore, it starts with organizations assessing the system using experts such as external security consultants who are hired to specifically assess the system for vulnerabilities and the risks they...