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A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience

A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience

By : Debra Baker
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A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience

A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience

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By: Debra Baker

Overview of this book

This book, written by the CEO of TrustedCISO with 30+ years of experience, guides CISOs in fortifying organizational defenses and safeguarding sensitive data. Analyze a ransomware attack on a fictional company, BigCo, and learn fundamental security policies and controls. With its help, you’ll gain actionable skills and insights suitable for various expertise levels, from basic to intermediate. You’ll also explore advanced concepts such as zero-trust, managed detection and response, security baselines, data and asset classification, and the integration of AI and cybersecurity. By the end, you'll be equipped to build, manage, and improve a resilient cybersecurity program, ensuring your organization remains protected against evolving threats.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Part 1: Attack on BigCo
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Part 2: Security Resilience: Getting the Basics Down
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Part 3: Security Resilience: Taking Your Security Program to the Next Level

Network access control (NAC) and Zero Trust

Another option is to scan all devices that attempt to connect to your work network. Typically, this is part of Zero Trust offerings, but it’s actually NAC that has been around since the late 2000s. NAC provides scanning, ensuring that the operating system (OS) is patched. In addition, NAC will ensure that your antivirus and anti-malware are up to date on all devices prior to being allowed to access your network. If your machine is company-issued, but the OS isn’t patched or the antivirus needs to be updated, then NAC would place you on a separate network to upgrade the software. This was set up at Cisco years before the Zero Trust became a big topic. NAC is considered a building block of Zero Trust. At Cisco, if I brought in my personal laptop, it would not automatically connect to the Cisco internal Wi-Fi network. There was a website you would go to to register your device. NAC would scan your device to ensure the OS and antivirus...

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