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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies Counter modern threats and employ state-of-the-art tools and techniques to protect your organization against cybercriminals

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838827793
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Yuri Diogenes Yuri Diogenes
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Preface 1. Security Posture 2. Incident Response Process FREE CHAPTER 3. What is a Cyber Strategy? 4. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain 5. Reconnaissance 6. Compromising the System 7. Chasing a User's Identity 8. Lateral Movement 9. Privilege Escalation 10. Security Policy 11. Network Segmentation 12. Active Sensors 13. Threat Intelligence 14. Investigating an Incident 15. Recovery Process 16. Vulnerability Management 17. Log Analysis 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Best practices for recovery planning

The aforementioned processes that form part of the DR plan can achieve better results if certain best practices are followed. Here are the most important ones:

  • Have an offsite location to store archived backups. The cloud is a ready-made solution for safe off-site storage.
  • Keep recording any changes made to the IT infrastructure to ease the process of reviewing the suitability of the contingency plan against the new systems.
  • Have proactive monitoring of IT systems so as to determine when a disaster is occurring early enough and be able to start the recovery process.
  • Implement fault-tolerant systems that can withstand a certain degree of exposure to a disaster. Implementing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) for servers is one way of achieving redundancy.
  • Test the integrity of the backups that are made to ensure that they have no errors. It would be disappointing for an organization to realize after a disaster that...
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