Chapter 1, Introduction to Cybersecurity and the Economy, provides a general overview of the current technologies, the infrastructures, and the general economy related to the financial world, which happens to be the primary target of cybercrime.
Chapter 2, Cyber Crime - Who the Attackers Are, gives an in-depth explanation particularly on cybercrime and cybercriminals, covering several associated case studies.
Chapter 3, Counting the Costs, covers the costs associated with cyber attacks and cybersecurity by analyzing different reports from cybersecurity experts.
Chapter 4, The Threat Landscape, briefly discusses threats against end users and financial institutes.
Chapter 5, Phishing, Spamming, and Scamming to Steal Data and Money, will provide the reader with an in-depth study on the malicious techniques frequently used by an attacker to obtain sensitive information.
Chapter 6, The Malware Plague, introduces different malware families and explains how they spread; this will eventually help you plan your defense strategy in a better way.
Chapter 7, Vulnerabilities and Exploits, will deep dive into the different exploitation techniques such as buffer overflow, race condition, and memory corruption, and explain how these exploits are delivered by threat actors.
Chapter 8, Attacking Online Banking Systems, will focus on the online economy and related security systems. We will describe how protections are implemented and how hackers are able to penetrate and acquire their target.
Chapter 9, Vulnerable Networks and Services - a Gateway for Intrusion, will introduce the important aspects of cybersecurity that are related to communication and network protocols.
Chapter 10, Responding to Service Disruption, will cover in depth what a cybersecurity incident is and how to establish an incident response plan.
Chapter 11, The Human Problem - Governance Fail, will briefly consider the human factor impacting the entire cybersecurity implementation, including standards, policies, configurations, architecture and so on.
Chapter 12, Securing the Perimeter and Protecting the Assets, will go deep into the most commonly adapted IT perimeter security model, which is single trust, then share insights into dual trust and finish up with the zero trust network model.
Chapter 13, Threat and Vulnerability Management, will cover three important processes in any organization and the different steps associated with it.
Chapter 14, Audit, Risk Management, and Incident Handling, will take us through the detailed version of encryption from its early methods and give us a brief idea of how far it has evolved. This chapter will cover various techniques along with the associated challenges.
Chapter 15, Encryption and Cryptography for Protecting Data and Services, will touch upon one of the most important changes facing the global economy currently: Blockchain and cryptocurrency.
Chapter 16, The Rise of the Blockchain, will talk about quantum computing at length, particularly the different ways in which it will shape the future.
Chapter 17, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, will focus in detail how to defend an asset using threat model, analysis, bug testing, software life cycle, accomplishing monitoring of software engineering processes used to ensure quality.
Chapter 18, The Quantum Future, will evaluate the impact of the increasing use of AI (Artificial Intelligence), which could soon be the next game changer.
