Security is everyone's responsibility and for any organization, the focus should be to educate their employees about the different types of security attacks and how to ensure that security is not compromised.
This cybersecurity book starts by defining the modern security and regulatory landscape, helping you understand the challenges related to human behavior and how attacks take place. You'll then see how to build effective cybersecurity awareness and modern information security programs. Once you've learned about the challenges in securing a modern enterprise, the book will take you through solutions or alternative approaches to overcome those issues and explain the importance of technologies such as cloud access security brokers, identity and access management solutions, and endpoint security platforms. As you advance, you'll discover how automation plays an important role in solving some key challenges and controlling long-term costs while building a maturing program. Toward the end, you'll also find tips and tricks to keep yourself and your loved ones safe from an increasingly dangerous digital world.
By the end of this book, you'll have gained a holistic understanding of cybersecurity and how it evolves to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
publication date
2022-03-10
what you will learn
Understand the macro-implications of cyber attacks
Identify malicious users and prevent harm to your organization
Find out how ransomware attacks take place
Work with emerging techniques for improving security profiles
Explore identity and access management and endpoint security
Get to grips with building advanced automation models
Build effective training programs to protect against hacking techniques
Discover best practices to help you and your family stay safe online
key features
Understand what happens in an attack and build the proper defenses to secure your organization * Defend against hacking techniques such as social engineering, phishing, and many more * Partner with your end user community by building effective security awareness training programs
approach
This book will help you to understand the cybersecurity landscape and specifically what is driving the cybercrime economy from the attacker’s perspective. You will learn about the role of human behavior both on the attacker’s and the defender’s sides. Then, you will look at the challenges in securing the modern enterprise and some recommended solutions or alternative approaches to the problems.
audience
This book is for security practitioners, including analysts, engineers, and security leaders, who want to better understand cybersecurity challenges. It is also for beginners who want to get a holistic view of information security to prepare for a career in the cybersecurity field. Business leaders looking to learn about cyber threats and how they can protect their organizations from harm will find this book especially useful. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned cybersecurity professional, this book has something new for everyone.
short description
In the modern world, cyber threats have increased exponentially and a complex web of global data privacy regulations has made security and compliance difficult. This book will help you to understand what is happening in the digital landscape and deploy both timeless best practices and modernized approaches to overcome cybersecurity challenges.
subtitle
An end-to-end guide to preventing data breaches and cyber attacks
keywords
cyber security, Books Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity for beginners, Cyber threats, modern enterprise, awareness training, cybersecurity awareness, information security
Product ISBN
9781803248639
