Learn how to build a cybersecurity program for a changing world with the help of proven best practices and emerging techniques
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
Book Description
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.
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
Who this book is for
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.
Table of Contents
- Protecting People, Information, and Systems – a Growing Problem
- The Human Side of Cybersecurity
- Anatomy of an Attack
- Protecting People, Information, and Systems with Timeless Best Practices
- Protecting against Common Attacks by Partnering with End Users
- Information Security for a Changing World
- Difficulty Securing the Modern Enterprise (with Solutions!)
- Harnessing Automation Opportunities
- Cybersecurity at Home
Jeremy Wittkop has spent the last decade architecting, implementing, and managing information protection programs for over a decade with a focus on helping multinational organizations comply with a changing regulatory landscape and protecting their most sensitive intellectual property. As InteliSecure's former chief technology officer, Jeremy was a foundational architect for InteliSecure's internationally recognized data protection, cloud security, and user and entity behavior analytics services. Jeremy is a trusted information protection thought-leader and a published author, blogger, public speaker, and advisor to clients as well as public and private equity investors.
