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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies: Improve your security posture to mitigate risks and prevent attackers from infiltrating your system, 3rd Edition
Updated edition of the bestselling guide for planning attack and defense strategies based on the current threat landscape
Key FeaturesUpdated for ransomware prevention, security posture management in multi-cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and moreExplore the latest tools for ethical hacking, pentesting, and Red/Blue teamingIncludes recent real-world examples to illustrate the best practices to improve security postureBook DescriptionCybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Third Edition will bring you up to speed with the key aspects of threat assessment and security hygiene, the current threat landscape and its challenges, and how to maintain a strong security posture.
In this carefully revised new edition, you will learn about the Zero Trust approach and the initial Incident Response process. You will gradually become familiar with Red Team tactics, where you will learn basic syntax for commonly used tools to perform the necessary operations. You will also learn how to apply newer Red Team techniques with powerful tools. Simultaneously, Blue Team tactics are introduced to help you defend your system from complex cyber-attacks. This book provides a clear, in-depth understanding of attack/defense methods as well as patterns to recognize irregular behavior within your organization. Finally, you will learn how to analyze your network and address malware, while becoming familiar with mitigation and threat detection techniques.
By the end of this cybersecurity book, you will have discovered the latest tools to enhance the security of your system, learned about the security controls you need, and understood how to carry out each step of the incident response process.
What you will learnLearn to mitigate, recover from, and prevent future cybersecurity eventsUnderstand security hygiene and value of prioritizing protection of your workloadsExplore physical and virtual network segmentation, cloud network visibility, and Zero Trust considerationsAdopt new methods to gather cyber intelligence, identify risk, and demonstrate impact with Red/Blue Team strategiesExplore legendary tools such as Nmap and Metasploit to supercharge your Red TeamDiscover identity security and how to perform policy enforcementIntegrate threat detection systems into your SIEM solutionsDiscover the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and open-source tools to gather intelligenceWho this book is forIf you are an IT security professional who wants to venture deeper into cybersecurity domains, this book is for you. Cloud security administrators, IT pentesters, security consultants, and ethical hackers will also find this book useful. Basic understanding of operating systems, computer networking, and web applications will be helpful.
Table of ContentsSecurity PostureIncident Response ProcessWhat is a Cyber Strategy? Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill ChainReconnaissanceCompromising the SystemChasing a User's IdentityLateral MovementPrivilege EscalationSecurity PolicyNetwork SecurityActive SensorsThreat IntelligenceInvestigating an IncidentRecovery ProcessVulnerability ManagementLog Analysis
Key FeaturesUpdated for ransomware prevention, security posture management in multi-cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and moreExplore the latest tools for ethical hacking, pentesting, and Red/Blue teamingIncludes recent real-world examples to illustrate the best practices to improve security postureBook DescriptionCybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Third Edition will bring you up to speed with the key aspects of threat assessment and security hygiene, the current threat landscape and its challenges, and how to maintain a strong security posture.
In this carefully revised new edition, you will learn about the Zero Trust approach and the initial Incident Response process. You will gradually become familiar with Red Team tactics, where you will learn basic syntax for commonly used tools to perform the necessary operations. You will also learn how to apply newer Red Team techniques with powerful tools. Simultaneously, Blue Team tactics are introduced to help you defend your system from complex cyber-attacks. This book provides a clear, in-depth understanding of attack/defense methods as well as patterns to recognize irregular behavior within your organization. Finally, you will learn how to analyze your network and address malware, while becoming familiar with mitigation and threat detection techniques.
By the end of this cybersecurity book, you will have discovered the latest tools to enhance the security of your system, learned about the security controls you need, and understood how to carry out each step of the incident response process.
What you will learnLearn to mitigate, recover from, and prevent future cybersecurity eventsUnderstand security hygiene and value of prioritizing protection of your workloadsExplore physical and virtual network segmentation, cloud network visibility, and Zero Trust considerationsAdopt new methods to gather cyber intelligence, identify risk, and demonstrate impact with Red/Blue Team strategiesExplore legendary tools such as Nmap and Metasploit to supercharge your Red TeamDiscover identity security and how to perform policy enforcementIntegrate threat detection systems into your SIEM solutionsDiscover the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and open-source tools to gather intelligenceWho this book is forIf you are an IT security professional who wants to venture deeper into cybersecurity domains, this book is for you. Cloud security administrators, IT pentesters, security consultants, and ethical hackers will also find this book useful. Basic understanding of operating systems, computer networking, and web applications will be helpful.
Table of ContentsSecurity PostureIncident Response ProcessWhat is a Cyber Strategy? Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill ChainReconnaissanceCompromising the SystemChasing a User's IdentityLateral MovementPrivilege EscalationSecurity PolicyNetwork SecurityActive SensorsThreat IntelligenceInvestigating an IncidentRecovery ProcessVulnerability ManagementLog Analysis
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Published September 30, 2022
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May 1, 2020
This is great since it covers the most important topic about the latest security threats and defense strategies for 2020, introduces many techniques to conduct threat hunting, and deal with a system breach. Anybody reading this book should definitely be fascinated since the information in the are fresh and easy to absorb. Moreover, the book covers important topics about information security which make readers become proficient after completing them.
Great Book though
Great Book though
May 3, 2020
Well first check amazon before reading it since there is not enough reviews for it in here. Its authors are very succesful people in their major. Book is very good and explanative about cybersecurity subjects. I recommend it for the enthusiasts who has knowledge in computer science. It's not for amateurs I think. It will help learning known attack and defense types. But it's not like attack-defend scenarios are examined for both sides. More like known concepts are explained in order. I especially recommend computer science students who are freshman. Before selecting a semimajor it will help you get an idea for cybersecurity.
October 19, 2024
The reference book for cybersecurity
This book defines the standard for what a well organised reference book about cybersecurity shall be. Precise definitions, straight to the point. Thanks for all the references with still active links.
This book defines the standard for what a well organised reference book about cybersecurity shall be. Precise definitions, straight to the point. Thanks for all the references with still active links.
July 31, 2025
Being compatible with Kindle is eminent!
That is really great to review all the C2 framework for red team as cyber security pen-tester like me. Recommended!
That is really great to review all the C2 framework for red team as cyber security pen-tester like me. Recommended!
February 24, 2018
Great book which shows everything what i need regarding cybersecurity from Red & blue team perspective. I love well done Yrui and Erdal
May 1, 2018
great book
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