Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance: Identify vulnerabilities and secure your financial services from security breaches - Couverture souple

Ozkaya, Erdal; Aslaner, Milad

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788836294 ISBN 13 : 9781788836296

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide that will give you hands-on experience to study and overcome financial cyber threats

Key Features

• Protect your financial environment with cybersecurity practices and methodologies
• Identify vulnerabilities such as data manipulation and fraudulent transactions
• Provide end-to-end protection within organizations

Book Description

Organizations have always been a target of cybercrime. Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance teaches you how to successfully defend your system against common cyber threats, making sure your financial services are a step ahead in terms of security.

The book begins by providing an overall description of cybersecurity, guiding you through some of the most important services and technologies currently at risk from cyber threats. Once you have familiarized yourself with the topic, you will explore specific technologies and threats based on case studies and real-life scenarios. As you progress through the chapters, you will discover vulnerabilities and bugs (including the human risk factor), gaining an expert-level view of the most recent threats. You'll then explore information on how you can achieve data and infrastructure protection. In the concluding chapters, you will cover recent and significant updates to procedures and configurations, accompanied by important details related to cybersecurity research and development in IT-based financial services.

By the end of the book, you will have gained a basic understanding of the future of information security and will be able to protect financial services and their related infrastructures.

What you will learn

• Understand the cyber threats faced by organizations
• Discover how to identify attackers
• Perform vulnerability assessment, software testing, and pentesting
• Defend your financial cyberspace using mitigation techniques and remediation plans
• Implement encryption and decryption
• Understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI) affects cybersecurity

Who this book is for

Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance is for you if you are a security architect, cyber risk manager, or pentester looking to secure your organization. Basic understanding of cybersecurity tools and practices will help you get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Cybersecurity and the Economy
2. Cyber Crime - Who the Attackers Are
3. Counting the Costs
4. The Threat Landscape
5. Phishing, Spamming, and Scamming to Steal Data and Money
6. The Malware Plague
7. Vulnerabilities and Exploits
8. Attacking Online Banking Systems
9. Vulnerable Networks and Services - a Gateway for Intrusion
10. Responding to Service Disruption
11. The Human Problem - Governance Fail
12. Securing the Perimeter and Protecting the Assets
13. Threat and Vulnerability Management
14. Audit, Risk Management, and Incident Handling
15. Encryption and Cryptography for Protecting Data and Services
16. The Rise of the Blockchain
17. Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity
18. The Quantum Future

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is a doctor of IT in cybersecurity and master of information systems security. He holds many industry certifications, such as CEI, MCT, MCSE, E|CEH, E|CISO, CFR, and CISSP. He works for Microsoft as a cybersecurity architect and security advisor, and he is also a part-time lecturer at Charles Sturt University. He has coauthored many cybersecurity books and security certification courseware for different vendors. He speaks at worldwide conferences. He has won many awards in his field, and he works hard to make the cyberworld safe.

Milad Aslaner is a security professional with over 10 years' experience in product engineering and management. He has published white papers and books on social engineering, the practical application of cybersecurity, and cybersecurity in the financial services industry, with a technical focus on EDR, TVM, incident response, and real-world exploitation techniques. During his time at Microsoft since 2012, he has led the commercial software engineering team for the Surface Book and Laptop, and built security features such as SEMM. As a senior security program manager, he aims to transform strategic enterprise customer requirements to realize new scenarios, thereby safeguarding Microsoft customers against the evolving threat landscape.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788836294
• ISBN 13: 9781788836296
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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