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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

Top cybersecurity strategies for businesses

The recent past has seen an increase in security incidents and many businesses falling prey to threat actors targeting data or other informational assets from these organizations.

However, with the careful development of cybersecurity strategies, it is still possible to keep your business secure enough in these challenging times. Some of the top cybersecurity strategies that can be implemented to help improve the security posture of your organization include:

  • Training employees about security principles
  • Protecting networks, information, and computers from viruses, malicious code, and spyware
  • Having firewall security for all internet connections
  • Installing software updates
  • Using backup copies
  • Implementing physical restrictions
  • Securing Wi-Fi networks
  • Changing passwords
  • Limiting access for employees
  • Using unique user accounts

We will discuss each of these...