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Cybersecurity Essentials

You're reading from Cybersecurity Essentials An accessible introduction to cybersecurity concepts and practices

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Wiley

ISBN-13 9781119362395

Length 784 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Authors (4):

Philip Craig

Charles J. Brooks

Donald Short

Christopher Grow

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

1. COVER FREE CHAPTER

2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3. ABOUT THE AUTHORS

4. INTRODUCTION

5. PART I: Securing the Infrastructure

6. PART II: Securing Local Hosts

7. PART III: Securing Local Networks

8. PART IV: Securing the Perimeter

9. INDEX

10. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

APPENDIX A: Glossary

1. APPENDIX B: Acronyms

2. APPENDIX C: NIST Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework

APPENDIX B
Acronyms

μC: Microcontroller

AAA: Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

ACK: Acknowledge

ACL: Access Control List

AES: Advanced Encryption Standard

AFHSS: Adaptive Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

AH: Authentication Header

AIM: Apple/IBM/Motorola

ASLR: Address Space Layout Randomization

ASP: Application Service Provider

ARM: Acorn RISC Machine/Advanced RISC Machine

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol

B2B: Business-to-Business

B2C: Business-to-Customer

BAA: Business Associate Agreement

BeEF: Browser Exploitation Framework

BES: Bulk Electric System

BIOS: Basic Input/Output System

BPDU: Bridge Protocol Data Units

BSD: Berkley Software Distribution

BYOD: Bring-Your-Own-Device

CA: Certificate Authority

CAM: Content Addressable Memory

CANs: Campus Area Networks or Corporate Area Networks

CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

CATV: Commercial Cable Television

CCD: Charged Coupled Device

CCTV: Closed-Circuit Television

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Authors (4)

Charles J. Brooks

Charles J. Brooks

Charles J. Brooks is the co-owner and vice president of Educational Technologies Group Inc., as well as co-owner of eITPrep LLP, an online training company.

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Christopher Grow

Christopher Grow

Christopher Grow is the president of A.C.C.N.S. Consulting and the manager of technical services for Educational Technologies Group L.L.C. He has more than 20years of IT/IS and cybersecurity experience.

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Philip Craig

Philip Craig

Philip Craig is the founder of BlackByte Cyber Security, LLC, a consultancy supporting the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) research and national security agendas.

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Donald Short

Donald Short

Donald Short is the president of One World Telecommunications, Inc., an internet service provider in Kennewick.

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