Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset: Build a Strategic Security Programme to Counteract Threats - Couverture souple

Armstrong-Smith, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1398614289 ISBN 13 : 9781398614284

Editeur : Kogan Page, 2024

Synopsis

To counteract a cyber attacker, organizations need to learn to think like one. Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset explores the psychology of cyber warfare and how organizations can defend themselves against attacks.

This book provides a comprehensive look at the inner workings of cyber attackers in the digital age and presents a set of strategies that organizations can deploy to counteract them. With technological advancements in cybersecurity, attackers are increasingly falling back to social engineering and preying on people's vulnerabilities. This book examines different types of cyber attackers, explores their motivations, and examines the methods used. It also reviews key industry developments such as cybercrime as a service, brokers and syndicates, nation-sponsored actors, insider sabotage and the challenges faced by law enforcement in tracking and apprehending attackers.

Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset offers expert, strategic guidance on how organizations can improve their cybersecurity operations in response, including enhancing security awareness training, educating employees to identify and resist manipulation, understanding the importance of cultural variances and how board-level decision-making can directly influence attacks. Written by a renowned cybersecurity leader, the book draws on interviews with ex-criminals and top experts in the field to share rich insights and a wide range of case studies profiling notable groups, such as Anonymous, Lapsus$, FIN7, Nigeria's Yahoo Boys, Sandworm, and the Lazarus Group. The human side of cybersecurity has never been so important.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sarah Armstrong-Smith has been recognized as one of the most influential leaders in cybersecurity and UK tech and has over 20 years' experience delivering and advising C-suite executives on large-scale business & ICT continuity, cybersecurity, data protection and resilience programmes. She is the Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft and works with strategic and major customers across Europe to help them enhance their security strategies and capabilities. Prior to Microsoft, she was the Group Head of Business Resilience & Crisis Management at The London Stock Exchange Group, the Head of Continuity & Resilience, Enterprise & Cyber Security at Fujitsu and also held roles at EY and AXA. She has been on the front-line of many major incidents, including IT failures, data breaches, and fraud. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is based in Bath, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kogan Page
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1398614289
• ISBN 13: 9781398614284
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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