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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

Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain

The Cyber Kill Chain is attributed to Lockheed Martin, who derived it from a military model used to effectively neutralize targets by anticipating their attacks, engaging them strategically, and stopping them. Despite how fancy it sounds, in reality the Cyber Kill Chain is just a step-by-step description of how hackers attack. The model describes the steps of adversaries from the beginning phases of attack until a system is exploited, these steps include:

  1. Reconnaissance
  2. Weaponization
  3. Delivery
  4. Exploitation
  5. Installation
  6. Command and Control (C2)
  7. Actions on Objectives

Organizations use this model to better understand threat actors so they can track and prevent cyber intrusions at their different stages. This has been done with varying degrees of success against ransomware, hacking attempts, and APTs (advanced persistent threats). As a defense strategist your goal will be to understand the attacker...