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

To get the most out of this book

When reading Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals, you will learn the basics of how we secure data using encryption. In order to fully understand the concepts, I have provided several links in each chapter for additional research, which I encourage you to visit.

In addition, I have provided links that take you to sites to see some applications available online. For example, we'll visit sites that show us how letter frequency analysis works, how a hash algorithm transforms text, and what Morse code sounds like.

So that you can follow along, it's best to have an up-to-date browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Safari on a Windows, macOS, or Linux machine.

Important note

Any web pages or email addresses are fictional. Any correlation with any real entities is purely coincidental.

Most of the resources will be found online, however, there are a few chapters that I will use specialized software, such as:

In Chapter 6, Examining Hash Algorithms, we'll cover how you can easily run a checksum on any file by using 7-Zip. To obtain a copy of 7-Zip, go to https://www.7-zip.org/.

In Chapter 9, Exploring IPsec and TLS, we'll take a look at PuTTY, a free SSH client you can use on a Windows system to access a single other host via Telnet and remote login (rlogin). To obtain a copy of PuTTY, go to https://www.putty.org/.

I encourage you to go to the sites I have provided to supplement your knowledge.