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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies Counter modern threats and employ state-of-the-art tools and techniques to protect your organization against cybercriminals

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838827793
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Yuri Diogenes Yuri Diogenes
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Preface 1. Security Posture 2. Incident Response Process FREE CHAPTER 3. What is a Cyber Strategy? 4. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain 5. Reconnaissance 6. Compromising the System 7. Chasing a User's Identity 8. Lateral Movement 9. Privilege Escalation 10. Security Policy 11. Network Segmentation 12. Active Sensors 13. Threat Intelligence 14. Investigating an Incident 15. Recovery Process 16. Vulnerability Management 17. Log Analysis 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Monitoring for compliance

While enforcing policies is important to ensure that the upper management's decisions are translated into real actions towards optimizing the security state of your company, monitoring these policies for compliance is also indispensable.

Policies that were defined based on CCE guidelines can be easily monitored using tools such as Azure Security Center, which not only monitor Windows VMs and computers, but also those operating with Linux software:

Figure 11: The OS Vulnerabilities dashboard

The OS Vulnerabilities dashboard shows a comprehensive view of all security policies that are currently open in Windows and Linux systems. If you click on one specific policy, you will see more details about this policy, including the reason why it is important to mitigate this vulnerability. Note that towards the end of the page, you will have the suggested countermeasure to mitigate this particular vulnerability. Since this is based on CCE, the countermeasure...

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