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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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Security Posture, defines what constitutes a good security posture and explores the importance of having a good defense and attack strategy.

Chapter 2, Incident Response Process, introduces the incident response process and the importance of establishing a consistent plan. It covers different industry standards and best practices for handling incident response.

Chapter 3, What is a Cyber Strategy?, explains what a cyber strategy is, why it’s needed, and how an effective enterprise cyber strategy can be built.

Chapter 4, Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain, prepares the reader to understand the mindset of an attacker, the different stages of an attack, and what usually takes place in each one of these stages.

Chapter 5, Reconnaissance, covers the different strategies to perform reconnaissance, showing how data is gathered to obtain information about the target and how this information is taken into consideration to plan an attack.

Chapter 6, Compromising the System, shows current trends in strategies to compromise a system, and explains some techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in a system.

Chapter 7, Chasing a User’s Identity, explains the importance of protecting the user’s identity to avoid credential theft, and covers the main strategies used to compromise a user’s identity, all with the intent to improve your identity protection.

Chapter 8, Lateral Movement, describes how attackers perform lateral movement operations once they gain access to the system.

Chapter 9, Privilege Escalation, shows how attackers can escalate privileges in order to gain administrative access to a system.

Chapter 10, Security Policy, focuses on the different aspects of the initial defense strategy, which starts with the importance of establishing guardrails in the beginning of the deployment pipeline and goes over best practices, security awareness training, and key security controls.

Chapter 11, Network Segmentation, looks into different aspects of defense in depth, covering physical network segmentation as well as the virtual and hybrid cloud.

Chapter 12, Active Sensors, explains the importance of having network sensors that can alert about threats based on patterns and behavior. It also covers the different types of network sensors and demonstrates some use case scenarios.

Chapter 13, Threat Intelligence, discusses different aspects of threat intelligence, both from the community and from major vendors.

Chapter 14, Investigating an Incident, goes over the steps to investigate an incident, explores the differences of investigating an on-premises incident versus a cloud-based incident, and finishes with a couple of case studies.

Chapter 15, Recovery Process, focuses on the recovery steps and procedures for a compromised system, and explains the criticality of the options available and how to evaluate the best recovery option.

Chapter 16, Vulnerability Management, describes the importance of vulnerability management to mitigate attempts to exploit known vulnerabilities.

Chapter 17, Log Analysis, goes over the different techniques for manual log analysis, since it is critical for the reader to gain knowledge of how to deeply analyze different types of logs to hunt suspicious security activities.

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