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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

Lab

Let's put what we have learned into action. We'll begin by going through how to build a Red Team PC in Windows.

Building a Red Team PC in Windows

As you already know, the Pen testing industry agrees that Kali is the main platform used by Pen testers. What if you'd prefer to use Windows as an operating system? Until recently, Windows did not have any viable alternatives to match Kali. However, the cybersecurity firm FireEye has created a Windows distribution focused on supporting penetration testers and Red Teamers, and they are as keen to share it as Offensive Security is to share Kali.

Built by FireEye, FLARE VM focuses on reverse engineering and malware analysis. The complete Mandiant Offensive VM ("Commando VM") comes with automated scripts to help individuals build their own penetration testing environment and ease the process of VM provisioning and deployment. This lab aims to help you to get Commando VM up and running on your Windows PC or...