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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

Concerns about the Cybersecurity Kill Chain

The kill chain has been in use since the year 2011. While it has obvious benefits, it has also presented numerous flaws that organizations need to be aware of. Some of the flaws that have been identified include:

  • Perimeter security: Perimeter security involves using security solutions such as malware prevention and firewalls. While these two solutions have been known to be very effective in the past, recent times have seen organizations shift to cloud technologies where perimeter security and malware detection are largely handled by third-party companies while an organization focuses on service delivery or product improvement. This means that there is an increasing need for the kill chain to evolve to accommodate new challenges and to fit the new market needs where technologies such as IoT are increasingly playing integral roles in business operations.
  • Attack vulnerabilities: The kill chain has also been criticized in terms...