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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

Amazon Web Services (AWS) logs

When you have resources located on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and you need to audit the overall activity of the platform, you need to enable AWS Cloud Trail. When you enable this feature, all activities that are occurring in your AWS account will be recorded in a CloudTrail event. These events are searchable and are kept for 90 days in your AWS account. here you have an example of a Trail:

Figure 3: Trails shown in AWS

If you click Event history, in the left navigation, you can see the list of events that were created. The list below has interesting events, including the deletion of a volume and the creation of a new role:

Figure 4: Event history in AWS

This is a comprehensive list of all events that were tracked. You can click on each one of those events to obtain more detailed information about it, as shown below:

Figure 5: Specific event information when clicking on one of the events listed in AWS

If you want to see the...