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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition

You're reading from   Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, 3rd edition Improve your security posture to mitigate risks and prevent attackers from infiltrating your system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248776
Length 570 pages
Edition 3rd 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 Security 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

Continuously driving security posture enhancement via security policy

In the agile world that we live in, having policy enforcement is important, but you must be continuously vigilant to understand the changes that are happening in the environment, and many changes will happen, mainly when you are managing a hybrid environment where you have resources on-premises and also in the cloud. In order for you to have the right level of visibility of new resources that are added to your infrastructure, you need a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) platform, which we briefly mentioned in Chapter 1, Security Posture.

Having a CSPM platform in place will help you to discover the addition of new workloads and understand the security state of those workloads. Some CSPM tools are able to scan to identify new resources and enumerate the security best practices that these resources are missing. Using Azure Security Center as an example of a CSPM platform, you also have a capability that...

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