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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

Disaster recovery best practices

In the event of a disaster, there are best practices to adhere to on-premises, on the Cloud, and within hybrid systems. We'll deal with them in sequence:

On-Premises

After the occurrence of a disaster, on-premises DR can help salvage the organization from total system failure and data loss in a cost-effective way. The best practices include:

  • Acting fast: without off-site backups or hot sites where operations can be shifted to, it could take an attacker a few minutes to bring down the whole organization. Therefore, DR teams should be on standby to respond to any events at all times. They should always have executable DR plans and a means of quickly accessing the organizational network and system.
  • Replicated backups: one of the main concerns during disasters is the permanent loss of data. Organizations should adopt a strategy where they keep replicated backups on the computers or servers as well as external disks. These backups...