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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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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the importance of having a security policy and driving this policy through a security program. You understood the importance of having a clear and well-established set of social media guidelines that give the employee an accurate view of the company's view regarding public posts, and the consequences of violating these guidelines.

Part of the security program includes the security awareness training, which educates the end user on security-related topics. This is a critical step to take, since the end user is always the weakest link in the security chain.

Later in this chapter, you learned how companies should enforce security policies using different sets of tools. Part of this policy enforcement includes application whitelisting and hardening systems. Lastly, you learned the importance of monitoring these policies for compliance, and learned how to use tools to do this.

In the next chapter, we will continue talking about defense...

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