Ozkaya Erdal - Hands-on cybersecurity for finance: identify vulnerabilities and secure your financial services from security breaches

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As cybercrime continues to be a growing threat to critical-business infrastructure, global economies, and financial stability, there is a need for vigilance across all sectors, geographies, and industries. There are many techniques, tools, and technologies that financial services organizations can employ to protect their infrastructure, data, and people from a compromise. On occasion, it appears as if there is a surfeit of such techniques, tools, and technologiesand the number of available solutions is overwhelming to even the largest global organizations, and even more so to those who do not have mature, well-funded, and well-staffed security organizations. In this book, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya and Milad Aslaner explore the many different aspects of building a comprehensive and segment-specific offense and defense against current and emerging threats to global financial services organizations. Their objective is to reduce the complexity and focus on the fundamentals of cyber resilience and good cyber hygiene by means of practical advice. As global threats continue to increase in volume and complexity, it is often important to make certain we are doing the basics well. The advanced tools will be valuable, but our ability to construct and operate a scalable and sustainable security program with relevant processes, people, and tools is what will allow us to be successful over the long term. Both of the authors have relevant, boots-on-the-ground experience to share, and I encourage you, the reader, to read this book with a pragmatic view of what is possible today, while regarding it as a building block for the future success of your security program.

Ann S. Johnson

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is a leading cybersecurity professional skilled in business development, management, and academics. He spends his time securing the cyberspace and sharing his knowledge as a security adviser, speaker, lecturer, and author. Erdal is passionate about reaching communities and creating cyber-aware campaigns. He leverages new and innovative approaches and technologies to holistically address information security and privacy needs for people and organizations worldwide. He has co-authored many cybersecurity books as well as security certification courseware and exams for different vendors. Erdal is also a part time lecturer at Australian Charles Sturt University.

Milad Aslaner is a security professional with over 10 years' experience in product engineering and management. He has published white papers and books on social engineering, the practical application of cybersecurity, and cybersecurity in the financial services industry, with a technical focus on EDR, TVM, incident response, and real-world exploitation techniques. During his time at Microsoft since 2012, he has led the commercial software engineering team for the Surface Book and Laptop, and built security features such as SEMM. As a senior security program manager, he aims to transform strategic enterprise customer requirements to realize new scenarios, thereby safeguarding Microsoft customers against the evolving threat landscape.