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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Second Edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Second Edition

By: Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Second Edition is a completely revised new edition of the bestselling book, covering the very latest security threats and defense mechanisms including a detailed overview of Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and an assessment of the current threat landscape, with additional focus on new IoT threats and cryptomining. Cybersecurity starts with the basics that organizations need to know to maintain a secure posture against outside threat and design a robust cybersecurity program. It takes you into the mindset of a Threat Actor to help you better understand the motivation and the steps of performing an actual attack – the Cybersecurity kill chain. You will gain hands-on experience in implementing cybersecurity using new techniques in reconnaissance and chasing a user’s identity that will enable you to discover how a system is compromised, and identify and then exploit the vulnerabilities in your own system. This book also focuses on defense strategies to enhance the security of a system. You will also discover in-depth tools, including Azure Sentinel, to ensure there are security controls in each network layer, and how to carry out the recovery process of a compromised system.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Continuously driving security posture enhancement via security policy

In the agile world that we live in, having policy enforcement is important, but you must be continuously vigilant to understand the changes that are happening in the environment, and many changes will happen, mainly when you are managing a hybrid environment where you have resources on-premises and also in the cloud. In order for you to have the right level of visibility of new resources that are added to your infrastructure, you need a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) platform, which we briefly mentioned in Chapter 1, Security Posture.

Having a CSPM platform in place will help you to discover the addition of new workloads and understand the security state of those workloads. Some CSPM tools are able to scan to identify new resources and enumerate the security best practices that these resources are missing. Using Azure Security Center as an example of a CSPM platform, you also have a capability that can...