Advanced persistent security : a cyberwarfare approach to implementing adaptive enterprise protection, detection, and reaction strategies / Ira Winkler, Araceli Treu Gomes ; Dave Shackleford, technical editor.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Winkler, Ira, author.
• Treu Gomes, Araceli, author.

Contributor:

• Shackleford, Dave, editor.

Series:

• Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Computer networks--Security measures.
• Computer security.
• Hacking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Syngress, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Advanced Persistent Security covers secure network design and implementation, including authentication, authorization, data and access integrity, network monitoring, and risk assessment. Using such recent high profile cases as Target, Sony, and Home Depot, the book explores information security risks, identifies the common threats organizations face, and presents tactics on how to prioritize the right countermeasures. The book discusses concepts such as malignant versus malicious threats, adversary mentality, motivation, the economics of cybercrime, the criminal infrastructure, dark webs, and the criminals organizations currently face. Contains practical and cost-effective recommendations for proactive and reactive protective measures Teaches users how to establish a viable threat intelligence program Focuses on how social networks present a double-edged sword against security programs

Contents:

• What is advanced persistent security?
• Cyberwarfare concepts
• What is proaction?
• Risk management
• How to hack computers
• Threat
• Adversary infrastructure
• Governance
• Vulnerabilities to address
• Countermeasures
• Security culture
• What is threat intelligence?
• What is detection?
• Detection deficit disorder
• The human intrusion detection system
• Kill chain analysis
• Setting reaction strategy
• Incident response and investigations
• Know yourself
• Know your adversaries
• Define your strategy
• Determining the appropriate countermeasures
• Advanced persistent security.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

962064634