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Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals

By : Lisa Bock
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Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals

By: Lisa Bock

Overview of this book

In today's world, it is important to have confidence in your data storage and transmission strategy. Cryptography can provide you with this confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. But are you aware of just what exactly is involved in using cryptographic techniques? Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals helps you to gain a better understanding of the cryptographic elements necessary to secure your data. The book begins by helping you to understand why we need to secure data and how encryption can provide protection, whether it be in motion or at rest. You'll then delve into symmetric and asymmetric encryption and discover how a hash is used. As you advance, you'll see how the public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificates build trust between parties, so that we can confidently encrypt and exchange data. Finally, you'll explore the practical applications of cryptographic techniques, including passwords, email, and blockchain technology, along with securely transmitting data using a virtual private network (VPN). By the end of this cryptography book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of cryptographic techniques and terms, learned how symmetric and asymmetric encryption and hashed are used, and recognized the importance of key management and the PKI.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Securing Our Data
5
Section 2: Understanding Cryptographic Techniques
9
Section 3: Applying Cryptography in Today's World

Questions

Now, it's time to check your knowledge. Select the best response to the following questions and then check your answers, found in the Assessment section at the end of the book:

  1. X.509 certificates are stored on the operating system. A macOS operating system will store the certificates in a virtual _____.

    a. MMC snap-in

    b. OCSP

    c. keychain

    d. CRL

  2. _____ is an authentication protocol used within Microsoft AD that uses a client-server configuration to issue session keys to entities within a domain.

    a. Kerberos

    b. OCSP

    c. Web of trust

    d. MMC snap-in

  3. In the standard approach to determining the validity of a certificate, the burden rests on the client, who must check the certificate's validity with the OCSP server. _____ the certificate reverses this burden so that the web server must validate the certificate.

    a. Pinning

    b. Stapling

    c. Revoking

    d. Curling

  4. The Kiddikatz pet store needs a digital certificate for their company website. Kiddikatz must send their public...