Summary

This chapter has covered a broad range of network topics, which should tell you one thing – keeping your network secure is a team effort that requires the devoted efforts of professionals in several different areas. In order to make the topic a little easier to understand, this chapter broke the requirements down into traditional protections, ML protections, real-time detection, and predictive defenses. Hackers are constantly doing three things to thwart your efforts: finding new ways to break into your network, developing ever-faster techniques, and doing the unexpected to evade your defenses. These hacker methodologies are why you must view network security as a collaboration between humans and various kinds of automation. Without augmentation, humans are hopelessly mired in detail and won’t see an attack until it has already finished and the damage is done. Despite this, automation can’t possibly deal with a hacker’s ability to perform attacks...