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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

Conclusion

This chapter has looked at cyber strategies, their necessity, and different strategies that can be used when developing them. As explained, a cyber strategy is an organization’s documented approach toward different aspects of cyberspace. However, the key concern in most cyber strategies is security. Cyber strategies are essential because they move organizations away from assumptions, help centralize decision making about cybersecurity, provide details about the tactics employed toward dealing with cybersecurity, give a long-term commitment to security, and simplify the complexities of cybersecurity. This chapter looked at the two main approaches used in writing cyber strategies, the attack and the defense standpoints.

When written from the attack perspective, cyber strategies focus on the security testing techniques that will be used to find and fix security vulnerabilities. When written from a defense perspective, cyber strategies look at how best to defend...