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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

Vulnerability management tools

In the following sections, we'll look at some individual vulnerability management tools and discuss some of their features and applications, starting with the Intruder tool.

Intruder

This tool addresses the growing need for security teams to scan for vulnerabilities on both on-premise and cloud platforms. The tool itself is cloud-based and can integrate with the leading cloud solution providers such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Since it is cloud-based, the tool is always running and thus does real-time external scans to ensure that an organization is not exposed to known weaknesses that can be exploited by attackers.

Intruder can scan computer networks, systems, and cloud apps and identify the flaws and send alerts to the IT security team to fix them.

The tool is perimeter-specific and keeps track of exposed ports and services on networks. It also scans for weaknesses in configurations that might impact the security...