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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition

4.9 (42)
By: Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Tools used during the Cyber Kill Chain

Now that we have examined the kill chain in depth and can understand a threat actor’s motivations at each stage, let’s examine some of the tools they may use during different phases of the kill chain. By taking the time to examine how these tools are used, we can gain a better understanding of the process threat actors go through when planning and staging an attack, and thus can better prepare ourselves for when they strike. In addition, these tools can be incredibly useful for Red Teams to utilize in mock attacks.

Metasploit

Metasploit is a legendary, Linux-based hacking framework that has been used countless times by hackers. This is because Metasploit is made up of numerous hacking tools and frameworks that have been made to effect different types of attacks on a target. So far, the framework has over 1,500 exploits that can be used against browsers, Android, Microsoft, Linux, and Solaris operating systems, and various...

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