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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

How to combat reconnaissance

Stopping the success of the attacker during the reconnaissance stage is crucial to stopping attacks before they develop further. If an attacker does not gain access to critical details about a system, they will end up using either trial and error methods or basing their plans on guesswork. For major attacks, such as advanced persistent attacks that cost huge sums of money to plan, the attackers cannot afford to use uncertain information to make major plans that may end up costing them a lot of money in the end. Therefore, thwarting attacker efforts at the beginning will help to either delay the attacks happening or stop the attacks altogether.

The best way to combat the successful completion of reconnaissance by attackers is to completely understand your network as an organization. You need to know details such as:

  • All the technologies that are used in the system and the network
  • Any possible cracks within the system

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