Building a Proactive Layered Defense Strategy
In the final chapter of Part 2, we’ll bring together the insights gathered from previous sections to explore the key elements of a proactive Defense in Depth (DiD) security plan. Our aim is to integrate the various aspects of attacker perspectives and create a security framework that effectively counters even the most determined and sophisticated threat actors.
To recap, in Chapter 3, Building a Framework for Layered Security, we equipped ourselves with a systematic approach to building a robust defense program with organizational risk as our guiding principle. Then, we started Part 2 by shifting our perspective from a defensive mindset to more of an attacker mindset. We extensively researched the attacker mindset in Chapter 4 by gaining invaluable insights into their tactics and motivations, followed by our exploration of using an adversarial lens to uncover weaknesses in our systems in Chapter 5. Later in Chapter 6, we took...
