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Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies Infrastructure security with Red Team and Blue Team tactics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475297
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yuri Diogenes Yuri Diogenes
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Security Posture 2. Incident Response Process FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain 4. Reconnaissance 5. Compromising the System 6. Chasing a User's Identity 7. Lateral Movement 8. Privilege Escalation 9. Security Policy 10. Network Segmentation 11. Active Sensors 12. Threat Intelligence 13. Investigating an Incident 14. Recovery Process 15. Vulnerability Management 16. Log Analysis 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned more about the current threat landscape and how these new threats are used to compromise credentials, apps, and data. In many scenarios, old hacking techniques are used, such as phishing emails. However, with a more sophisticated approach. You also learned the current reality regarding the nationwide type of threat, and government-targeted attacks. In order to protect your organization against these new threats, you learned about key factors that can help you to enhance your security posture. It is essential that part of this enhancement shifts the attention from protection only to include detection and response. For that, the use of Red and Blue Team becomes imperative. The same concept applies to the assume breach methodology.

In the next chapter, you will continue to learn about the enhancement of your security posture. However, the chapter will focus on the incident response process. The incident response process is primordial for companies that need a better detection and response against cyber threats.

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