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Cybersecurity: Methods of Protection (Blue Team Activity) [Video]

By : Sergii Nesterenko
Book Image

Cybersecurity: Methods of Protection (Blue Team Activity) [Video]

By: Sergii Nesterenko

Overview of this book

<p>Cyber threats and attacks are becoming more common, sophisticated, and damaging. The Alliance is faced with an evolving complex threat environment. State and non-state actors can use cyber attacks in the context of military operations. </p><p>In the first part of the course, you'll learn about different kinds of cyberattack and how they can be executed. In the second part, you'll prevent or mitigate these attacks and protect your digital assets. </p><p>First of all you'll find out how to harden your network in all directions. We'll talk about firewalls and how to fine-tune them correctly. You'll manage IDS and IPS and understand what they can tell us. You'll also learn how to track hackers in the cyberspace, harden every host in the network, and find network spies. </p><p>Next, we cover how to harden your websites and web applications: what steps you should take to avoid SQL injection, XSS scripts, session hijacking, and more. </p><p>We'll show you how to protect yourself and your employees against hackers and their psychological manipulations, and phishing and spear-phishing. </p><p></p>
Table of Contents (3 chapters)
Chapter 3
Defending from Social Engineering Attacks
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Section 8
How to Outfox Keyloggers
In this section, we’ll deep into the dark secrets of social engineering attacks. We’ll consider why social engineering has mostly evolved in the digital form – phishing emails. Social engineering is different from other kinds of cyberattacks, because it targets not at computers’ vulnerabilities but on human brain’s weaknesses in the first turn. That’s why even a guru of IT-technologies can fall a prey of such attacks. Social engineering relates to cyber psychology sphere, and after learning this section, you’ll discover how to protect from these dangerous attacks in the easiest and fastest ways possible.