What Is Covered in This Book

This book is a basic training system designed to provide a solid theoretical understanding of cybersecurity challenges, tools, and techniques, as well as to develop the foundations of a professional cybersecurity skill set. This is accomplished in a progressive four-section process, as follows:

Part I—Infrastructure Security—This part introduces the concepts and techniques associated with physical infrastructure security devices, systems, and techniques used to combat theft, prevent physical damage, maintain system integrity and services, and limit unauthorized disclosure of information.

Chapter 1 presents two Infrastructure Security Scenarios for the reader to consider and research selected NIST Cybersecurity Framework Functions and Categories and then apply them to the given scenarios.

Chapter 2 deals with common Access Control systems for protecting physical infrastructure assets. This section contains information about different types of...