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The Complete Guide to Defense in Depth

The Complete Guide to Defense in Depth

By : Akash Mukherjee
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The Complete Guide to Defense in Depth

The Complete Guide to Defense in Depth

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By: Akash Mukherjee

Overview of this book

In an era of relentless cyber threats, organizations face daunting challenges in fortifying their defenses against increasingly sophisticated attacks. The Complete Guide to Defense in Depth offers a comprehensive roadmap to navigating the complex landscape, empowering you to master the art of layered security. This book starts by laying the groundwork, delving into risk navigation, asset classification, and threat identification, helping you establish a robust framework for layered security. It gradually transforms you into an adept strategist, providing insights into the attacker's mindset, revealing vulnerabilities from an adversarial perspective, and guiding the creation of a proactive defense strategy through meticulous mapping of attack vectors. Toward the end, the book addresses the ever-evolving threat landscape, exploring emerging dangers and emphasizing the crucial human factor in security awareness and training. This book also illustrates how Defense in Depth serves as a dynamic, adaptable approach to cybersecurity. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a profound understanding of the significance of multi-layered defense strategies, explored frameworks for building robust security programs, and developed the ability to navigate the evolving threat landscape with resilience and agility.
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Part 1: Understanding Defense in Depth – The Core Principle
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Part 2: Building a Layered Security Strategy – Thinking Like an Attacker
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Part 3: Adapting and Evolving with Defense in Depth – The Threat Landscape

Advanced technologies in defense

The previous sections highlighted the necessity for an adaptive DiD approach driven by threat intelligence and responsiveness to dynamic risks. However, to move from theory to practice, we must embrace the cutting-edge technology shaping the tools at our disposal. This section unveils advanced technologies that aren’t mere replacements for existing layers but fundamentally transform how a defense strategy functions.

We’ll begin with homomorphic encryption. For decades, a trade-off existed – you had to decrypt data to use it but doing so created unavoidable risks. With homomorphic encryption, analysis directly on encrypted data is possible. Imagine systems that process data without ever exposing that data! We’ll explore the impact of such a change on data exfiltration protection, cloud environment defense, and the interplay between security and privacy.

We will also explore traditional encryption technologies with forward...

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