Aditya Mukherjee - Network Security Strategies: Protect your network and enterprise against advanced cybersecurity attacks and threats

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Dr. Aditya Mukherjee is a cybersecurity veteran and an information security leader with over 14 years' experience in leadership roles across information security domains, including defense and law enforcement, financial services, health and public services, products, resources, communications, and media and technology. His core expertise includes cybersecurity strategy, strategic risk and cyber resilience assessment, tactical leadership and development, GRC and security auditing, security operations, architecture and engineering, threat management, security investigations, and forensics.

Yasser Ali is a cybersecurity consultant at Thales in the Middle East. He has extensive experience in providing consultancy and advisory services to enterprises regarding the implementation of cybersecurity best practices, critical infrastructure protection, red teaming, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessment, managing bug bounty programs, and web and mobile application security assessment. He is also an advocate speaker and participant in information security industry discussions, panels, committees, and conferences, and is a specialized trainer, featuring regularly on different media platforms around the world.

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Every small, medium, and large enterprise across the globe today carries out at least a few, if not all, operations with the help of Information Technology (IT). IT networks form the basic building blocks of these complex structures with the help of associated technologies and business logic. Securing such networks is therefore of paramount importance.

In this book, we will learn advanced skills and their real-world implementation, which will enable us to build a resilient network security apparatus, secure existing network infrastructure, and implement a high-fidelity, repeatable improvement plan to stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity threats and how to mitigate them. We will be taking a deep dive into subjects including network penetration testing, network audits, network digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, deception technology, and attack vectors impacting ICS/SCADA, IoT, and VOIP, among others.

By the end of this book, you should be able to:

• Understand the building blocks of a network and how to apply security to it
• Understand threats and vulnerabilities that commonly plague networks today
• Understand how to perform security testing for your network
• Understand how to imply business impact and risk prioritization for the purpose of remediation and management discussion
• Understand how to move to a proactive security mindset from a reactive security mindset

This book is for anyone looking to explore information security, privacy, malware, and cyber threats. Security experts who want to enhance their skillsets will also find this book useful. An understanding of cyber threats and information security will help in understanding the key concepts covered in this book.