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The Cybersecurity Playbook for Modern Enterprises

The Cybersecurity Playbook for Modern Enterprises

By : Jeremy Wittkop
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The Cybersecurity Playbook for Modern Enterprises

The Cybersecurity Playbook for Modern Enterprises

4.7 (9)
By: Jeremy Wittkop

Overview of this book

Security is everyone's responsibility and for any organization, the focus should be to educate their employees about the different types of security attacks and how to ensure that security is not compromised. This cybersecurity book starts by defining the modern security and regulatory landscape, helping you understand the challenges related to human behavior and how attacks take place. You'll then see how to build effective cybersecurity awareness and modern information security programs. Once you've learned about the challenges in securing a modern enterprise, the book will take you through solutions or alternative approaches to overcome those issues and explain the importance of technologies such as cloud access security brokers, identity and access management solutions, and endpoint security platforms. As you advance, you'll discover how automation plays an important role in solving some key challenges and controlling long-term costs while building a maturing program. Toward the end, you'll also find tips and tricks to keep yourself and your loved ones safe from an increasingly dangerous digital world. By the end of this book, you'll have gained a holistic understanding of cybersecurity and how it evolves to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1 – Modern Security Challenges
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Section 2 – Building an Effective Program
9
Section 3 – Solutions to Common Problems

Chapter 9

  1. What is a password manager? What problems does it help people solve?

A password manager stores passwords for different services in an encrypted vault. It helps solve the problem of password reuse. (Section: Password managers)

  1. What is multifactor authentication?

Multifactor authentication refers to using two or more of the following categories to identify a user: something you know, something you have, and something you are. (Section: Multifactor authentication)

  1. Explain why password length is important.

Each additional character in a password raises the effort required to crack the password using brute-force methods exponentially. (Section: Password complexity and why it matters)

  1. Explain why password complexity is important.

Adding additional types of characters helps to increase the number of possibilities for the characters in a password, making it more difficult to crack using brute-force methods. (Section: Password...

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