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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

Comodo AEP via Dragon Platform

While the tools discussed in the previous sections provide useful resources for red-teaming and testing your systems, there are also tools that can be used to stop a real attack when it happens. One such tool is Comodo Advanced Endpoint Protection’s Dragon Platform, which brings together an approach to block hackers at each phase of the kill chain.

Comodo has a default deny technology that is particularly useful for thwarting attacks as they are happening as it prevents any unknown files from creating a socket for network communication. It is only after their File Verdict System determines that a file is safe that it is allowed to create sockets and communicate with the network. This eliminates the need for decoding the protocols, identifying non-standard port usage, and protocol tunneling as files are unable to communicate until it is confirmed that they are definitely safe.

This makes Comodo unique as creating a C&C channel is not...