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Discover Incident Response (IR), from its evolution to implementation

Understand cybersecurity essentials and IR best practices through real-world phishing incident scenarios

Explore the current challenges in IR through the perspectives of leading experts

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Cybercriminals are always in search of new methods to infiltrate systems. Quickly responding to an incident will help organizations minimize losses, decrease vulnerabilities, and rebuild services and processes. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with most organizations gravitating towards remote working and cloud computing, this book uses frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK® and the SANS IR model to assess security risks. The book begins by introducing you to the cybersecurity landscape and explaining why IR matters. You will understand the evolution of IR, current challenges, key metrics, and the composition of an IR team, along with an array of methods and tools used in an effective IR process. You will then learn how to apply these strategies, with discussions on incident alerting, handling, investigation, recovery, and reporting. Further, you will cover governing IR on multiple platforms and sharing cyber threat intelligence and the procedures involved in IR in the cloud. Finally, the book concludes with an “Ask the Experts” chapter wherein industry experts have provided their perspective on diverse topics in the IR sphere. By the end of this book, you should become proficient at building and applying IR strategies pre-emptively and confidently.

Who is this book for?

This book is aimed at first-time incident responders, cybersecurity enthusiasts who want to get into IR, and anyone who is responsible for maintaining business security. It will also interest CIOs, CISOs, and members of IR, SOC, and CSIRT teams. However, IR is not just about information technology or security teams, and anyone with a legal, HR, media, or other active business role would benefit from this book. The book assumes you have some admin experience. No prior DFIR experience is required. Some infosec knowledge will be a plus but isn’t mandatory.

What you will learn

Understand IR and its significance

Organize an IR team

Explore best practices for managing attack situations with your IR team

Form, organize, and operate a product security team to deal with product vulnerabilities and assess their severity

Organize all the entities involved in product security response

Respond to security vulnerabilities using tools developed by Keepnet Labs and Binalyze

Adapt all the above learnings for the cloud

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Javid Askarov Mar 15, 2021

I read this book and highly recommend if you are going to organize Incident Response Plan and Procedure.All chapters are explained clearly and widely.Thanks to Erdal Özkaya for such a wonderful source.

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Beagle Oct 22, 2021

I have read many books on cybersecurity, and while I have found many to have some useful information Dr Erdal Ozkaya presents this information in a down to earth realistic matter which allows you to apply the principles which he outlines to real-world scenarios and derive immense and immediate value from this book. I would recommend this book to any cybersecurity professional and especially anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of incident response, there is not a more valuable resource you can find to learn from.

CISO Aug 09, 2022

This book is a comprehensive guide for any organization to get prepared for the eventuality of a cyberattack. The book covers how to control cybersecurity breaches ,helping you to speed up the recovery time, and minimize the damage costs .As CISO I bought this book not just for my self but also to my team to help them increase their awareness and knowledge based on real life examples covered in the book .Happy reading

Dr. Roderick Arthur - Security Operations at Confidential Mar 15, 2021

I was lucky to receive a review copy of this book, and If you're looking for a better understanding of responding to security incidents in the cloud, read Dr. Ozkaya's "Incident Response in the Age of Cloud!" Dr. Ozkaya uses a step-by-step process, covering everything from key metrics for IR, to IR best practices. Not only are the methods based on the author's own experiences, included are inputs from other industry experts. A must read from incident responders, and easily a five star read.

RDiver Mar 20, 2021

622 pages ! this is a lot of work and certainly a topic that needs this level of detail. Recommended reading for anyone enhancing their security strategy, building a SOC, consulting for customers, and especially for anyone new to Cyber Security that wants to jump in at the deep-end :)In this book Dr Erdal Ozkaya covers every aspect of Incident response from team composition and methodologies, to incident handling and investigations, including metrics your team can use to improve success rates through continuous practice.This book provides great coverage of how to handle one of the most common forms of incidents: Phishing attacks. There are guides also for several types of IR activities across many workloads. Get hands on with the step by step guidance based on real-life experience and deep expertise from many industry experts.

Incident Response in the Age of Cloud: Techniques and best practices to effectively respond to cybersecurity incidents

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