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Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals

You're reading from Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals Learn how you can leverage encryption to better secure your organization's data

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838644352

Length 286 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cryptography

Author (1):

Lisa Bock

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Securing Our Data

2. Chapter 1: Protecting Data in Motion or at Rest FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Evolution of Ciphers

4. Chapter 3: Evaluating Network Attacks

5. Section 2: Understanding Cryptographic Techniques

6. Chapter 4: Introducing Symmetric Encryption

7. Chapter 5: Dissecting Asymmetric Encryption

8. Chapter 6: Examining Hash Algorithms

9. Section 3: Applying Cryptography in Today's World

10. Chapter 7: Adhering to Standards

11. Chapter 8: Using a Public Key Infrastructure

12. Chapter 9: Exploring IPsec and TLS

13. Chapter 10: Protecting Cryptographic Techniques

14. Assessments

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding TLS

For many years, consumers have been conducting transactions on the internet. Up until recently, a website could get away with not having a secure connection. However, most consumers nowadays insist on some form of encryption to protect against malicious activity.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/TLS-based VPNs have been around since the early 1990s. Netscape (which later became Firefox) developed this protocol to secure traffic while on the internet. Originally known as SSL, this method was widely recognized as a way to secure traffic between clients and web browsers. The protocol has improved over the years in the following ways:

SSL 2.0-SSL 3.0 represent early versions of the protocol. SSL 3.0 is no longer used.
TLS 1.0 is essentially an upgrade of SSL 1.0; although the protocol was to be deprecated in 2020, you may still see this version in use.
TLS 1.1 was released in 2006. TLS 1.1 was also to be deprecated in 2020; however you may still see this...

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Authors (1)

Lisa Bock

Lisa Bock

Lisa Bock is an experienced author with a demonstrated history of working in the e-learning industry. She is a security ambassador with a broad range of IT skills and knowledge, including on Cisco Security, CyberOps, Wireshark, biometrics, ethical hacking, and IoT. Lisa is an author for LinkedIn Learning and an award-winning speaker who has presented at several national conferences. She holds an MS in computer information systems/information assurance from UMGC. Lisa was an associate professor in the IT department at Pennsylvania College of Technology (Williamsport, PA) from 2003 until her retirement in 2020. She is involved with various volunteer activities, and she and her husband Mike enjoy bike riding, watching movies, and traveling.

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