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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

Summary

This chapter has looked at cyber strategies, their necessity, and different strategies that can be used when developing them. The key concern in most cyber strategies is security. Cyber strategies are essential because they move organizations away from assumptions, help centralize decision making about cybersecurity, provide details about the tactics employed towards dealing with cybersecurity, give a long-term commitment to security, and simplify the complexities of cybersecurity. The chapter has looked at the two main approaches used in writing cyber strategies; the attack and defense standpoints.

When written from the attack perspective, cyber strategies focus on the security testing techniques that will be used to find and fix security vulnerabilities. When written from a defense (Blue Team) perspective, cyber strategies look at how best to defend an organization. The chapter has explained the two main defense strategies; defense in depth and defense in breadth. Defense...