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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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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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

Linking attack vectors to attacker profiles

In the Threat actors and their motivations section in Chapter 1, we described different types of attacker profiles and their primary motivations behind launching attacks. Later, in Chapters 4 and 5, we went over them in more detail to cover common techniques employed by different classes of attackers. We also discussed attacker profiles based on an organization’s data assets.

In the earlier section, we took a tour of common attack patterns through recent, large-scale exploits. Let’s now synthesize this knowledge to proactively detect attacks in real time. By combining threat intelligence, proactive monitoring, deceptive tactics such as honeypots, and analysis of key profiling indicators (sophistication, targets, timing, persistence, etc.), we can continuously uncover hidden adversaries targeting our systems.

Before jumping into the content, let’s recap our learnings about types of threat actors from previous chapters...

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