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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition - Third Edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd 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.
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Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain

In the last chapter, you learned about the incident response process and how it fits into the overall enhancement of a company’s security posture. Now it is time to start thinking like an attacker and understand the rationale, the motivation, and the steps of performing an attack. We call this the Cybersecurity Kill Chain, which is something that we briefly covered in Chapter 1, Secure Posture. Today, the most advanced cyber-attacks are reported to involve intrusions inside a target’s network that last a long time before doing damage or being discovered. This reveals a unique characteristic of today’s attackers: they have an astounding ability to remain undetected until the time is right. This means that they operate on well-structured and scheduled plans. There have been studies carried out on the precision of their attacks, which have revealed that most cyber attackers use a series of similar phases to pull off successful...

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