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Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies Infrastructure security with Red Team and Blue Team tactics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475297
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yuri Diogenes Yuri Diogenes
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Preface 1. Security Posture FREE CHAPTER 2. Incident Response Process 3. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain 4. Reconnaissance 5. Compromising the System 6. Chasing a User's Identity 7. Lateral Movement 8. Privilege Escalation 9. Security Policy 10. Network Segmentation 11. Active Sensors 12. Threat Intelligence 13. Investigating an Incident 14. Recovery Process 15. Vulnerability Management 16. Log Analysis 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Defense in depth approach


Although you might think that this is an old method and it doesn't apply to today's demands, the reality is that it still does, although you won't be using the same technologies that you used in the past. The whole idea behind the defense in depth approach is to ensure that you have multiple layers of protection, and that each layer will have its own set of security controls, which will end up delaying the attack, and that the sensors available in each layer will alert you to whether or not something is happening. In other words, breaking the attack kill chain before the mission is fully executed.

But to implement a defense in depth approach for today's needs, you need to abstract yourself from the physical layer, and think purely about layers of protection according to the entry point. Let's use the following diagram as an example of how defense in depth is implemented today:

The attacker has broad access to different resources. They can attack the infrastructure...

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