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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

Tools used for reconnaissance

There are many recon tools available on the internet. Some of them are commercial and very expensive and some of them are totally free. In this section, we will examine some of the many tools that are used for reconnaissance. However, before we go ahead and share some useful tools here, we would like to introduce you to some comprehensive archives that are updated regularly with even more tools and exploits. As such, we recommend you visit them regularly to keep on top of the latest trends:

  • Exploit-DB: The Exploit Database is a repository for exploits and proofs of concepts rather than advisories, making it a valuable resource for those who need actionable data right away. The site hosts more than 10,000 exploits and sorts them into categories based on the operating system, shellcode, and so on.
  • Seebug: Seebug.org is an open vulnerability platform based on vulnerability and proof of concept/exploit sharing communities. The site has 50...