Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies: Improve your security posture to mitigate risks and prevent attackers from infiltrating your system, 3rd Edition - Couverture souple

Diogenes, Yuri; Ozkaya, Dr. Erdal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1803248777 ISBN 13 : 9781803248776

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Updated edition of the bestselling guide for planning attack and defense strategies based on the current threat landscape

Key Features

• Updated for ransomware prevention, security posture management in multi-cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and more
• Explore the latest tools for ethical hacking, pentesting, and Red/Blue teaming
• Includes recent real-world examples to illustrate the best practices to improve security posture

Book Description

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Third Edition will bring you up to speed with the key aspects of threat assessment and security hygiene, the current threat landscape and its challenges, and how to maintain a strong security posture.

In this carefully revised new edition, you will learn about the Zero Trust approach and the initial Incident Response process. You will gradually become familiar with Red Team tactics, where you will learn basic syntax for commonly used tools to perform the necessary operations. You will also learn how to apply newer Red Team techniques with powerful tools. Simultaneously, Blue Team tactics are introduced to help you defend your system from complex cyber-attacks. This book provides a clear, in-depth understanding of attack/defense methods as well as patterns to recognize irregular behavior within your organization. Finally, you will learn how to analyze your network and address malware, while becoming familiar with mitigation and threat detection techniques.

By the end of this cybersecurity book, you will have discovered the latest tools to enhance the security of your system, learned about the security controls you need, and understood how to carry out each step of the incident response process.

What you will learn

• Learn to mitigate, recover from, and prevent future cybersecurity events
• Understand security hygiene and value of prioritizing protection of your workloads
• Explore physical and virtual network segmentation, cloud network visibility, and Zero Trust considerations
• Adopt new methods to gather cyber intelligence, identify risk, and demonstrate impact with Red/Blue Team strategies
• Explore legendary tools such as Nmap and Metasploit to supercharge your Red Team
• Discover identity security and how to perform policy enforcement
• Integrate threat detection systems into your SIEM solutions
• Discover the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and open-source tools to gather intelligence

Who this book is for

If you are an IT security professional who wants to venture deeper into cybersecurity domains, this book is for you. Cloud security administrators, IT pentesters, security consultants, and ethical hackers will also find this book useful. Basic understanding of operating systems, computer networking, and web applications will be helpful.

Table of Contents

1. Security Posture
2. Incident Response Process
3. What is a Cyber Strategy?
4. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain
5. Reconnaissance
6. Compromising the System
7. Chasing a User's Identity
8. Lateral Movement
9. Privilege Escalation
10. Security Policy
11. Network Security
12. Active Sensors
13. Threat Intelligence
14. Investigating an Incident
15. Recovery Process
16. Vulnerability Management
17. Log Analysis

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yuri Diogenes is a professor at EC-Council University for their BSc in Cybersecurity and a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Yuri has an MSc in Cybersecurity from UTICA College, PhD student in the Cybersecurity Leadership program at Capitol Technology University, and an MBA from FGV Brazil. He currently holds the following certifications: CISSP, CyberSec First Responder, MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence, CompTIA CySa+, E-CEH, E-CSA, E-CHFI, E-CND, CompTIA, Security+, Network+ and CASP. He has published over 27 books, mostly on information security.

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He’s a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803248777
• ISBN 13: 9781803248776
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 570
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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