Preface

Mastering Defensive Security is a book aimed at IT pros who want to increase their knowledge about cybersecurity, including the use of tools such as Wireshark, DVWA, Burp Suite, OpenVAS, and NMAP, hardware threats such as a weaponized Raspberry Pi, and hardening techniques for Unix and Windows.

But if you are a cybersecurity professional, this book will help you to explore advanced defensive security fields such as IoT, web apps, and the cloud and handle complex topics such as malware analysis and forensics.

By the end of this book, you will have acquired all the technical skills required to become a cybersecurity pro as well as all the required knowledge to develop a customized cybersecurity strategy to ultimately become a master in defensive security.