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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Third Edition

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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803248776

Pages 570 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Authors (2):

Yuri Diogenes

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Security Posture

2. Incident Response Process

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

Firewall logs

The firewall log format varies according to the vendor; however, there are some core fields that will be there regardless of the platform. When reviewing the firewall logs, you must focus on primarily answering the following questions:

Who started the communication (source IP)?
Where is the destination of that communication (destination IP)?
What type of application is trying to reach the destination (transport protocol and port)?
Was the connection allowed or denied by the firewall?

The following code is an example of the Check Point firewall log; in this case, we are hiding the destination IP for privacy purposes:

"Date","Time","Action","FW.Name","Direction","Source","Destination","Bytes","Rules","Protocol" "
datetime=26Nov2017","21:27:02","action=drop","fw_name=Governo","dir=inboun...

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Authors (2)

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes is a professor at EC-Council University for their BSc in Cybersecurity and a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Yuri has an MSc in Cybersecurity from UTICA College, PhD student in the Cybersecurity Leadership program at Capitol Technology University, and an MBA from FGV Brazil. He currently holds the following certifications: CISSP, CyberSec First Responder, MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence, CompTIA CySa+, E-CEH, E-CSA, E-CHFI, E-CND, CompTIA, Security+, Network+ and CASP. He has published over 27 books, mostly on information security.

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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He’s a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.

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