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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Second Edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
Book Image

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

LABS

Now that we've covered the key concepts within vulnerability management, let's run through some practical lab exercises to get hands-on with what we have learned.

Lab 1: Performing an online vulnerability scan with Acunetix

In this Lab we will learn how to perform a Vulnerability scan via Acunetix. You don't have to go through websites to find an example of a vulnerable website; Acunetix has a testing site already available.

Alternatively, you can use some of the "try to hack" test websites seen in some of our previous chapters.

Here are the vulnerable website examples:

This lab will assume you have downloaded and installed the software already. By default, Acunetix (on-premise) will install and configure itself to run on localhost, port 3443. The installation process is quite easy to go through. You might...