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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

Why do we need to build a cyber strategy?

Organizations are constantly dealing with threats emanating from hardened professionals in cyber attacks. It is a sad reality that many intrusions are carried out by nation states, cyber terrorists, and powerful cybercriminal groups. There is an underground economy of hackers that facilitates the purchase or hiring of intrusion tools, techniques or personnel, and laundering of the monetary proceeds from successful attacks.

It is often the case that attackers have far more technical expertise in cybersecurity than the average IT employee. Therefore, the attackers can leverage their advanced expertise to easily bypass many cyber defense tools set up by the IT departments in many organizations. This, therefore, calls for a redefinition of how organizations should deal with cyber threats and threat actors because leaving the task to the IT department is just not enough. While hardening systems and installing more security tools would have worked...