Chapter 9: Identifying Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities
As a security professional, you must be fully aware of the different types of attacks that your company could be subjected to. The different attacks range from different types of malware that employees may come across to social engineering, where the attacker will contact them directly and try to exploit their personal vulnerability. We will then look at the different types of threat actors and their characteristics. And finally, we will look at password exploitation and other advanced attacks.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Virus and Malware Attacks
- Social Engineering Attacks
- Threat Actors
- Advanced Attacks
- Security Concerns with Various Type of Vulnerabilities
Let's start by looking at virus and malware attacks.
