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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

Best practices for recovery planning

The aforementioned processes that form part of the DR plan can achieve better results if certain best practices are followed. Here are the most important ones:

  • Have an offsite location to store archived backups. The cloud is a ready-made solution for safe off-site storage.
  • Keep recording any changes made to the IT infrastructure to ease the process of reviewing the suitability of the contingency plan against the new systems.
  • Have proactive monitoring of IT systems so as to determine when a disaster is occurring early enough and be able to start the recovery process.
  • Implement fault-tolerant systems that can withstand a certain degree of exposure to a disaster. Implementing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) for servers is one way of achieving redundancy.
  • Test the integrity of the backups that are made to ensure that they have no errors. It would be disappointing for an organization to realize after a disaster that...