CHAPTER 1Infrastructure Security in the Real World

The following challenges will provide contextual reference points for the concepts you will learn in Part I. Because you have not yet read the chapters in Part I, the challenges in this chapter are designed to introduce you to the infrastructure security scenarios you’ll face in the real world. In this chapter, you’ll learn to:

  • Understand the relevance of infrastructure security
  • Describe the functions, categories, subcategories, and reference structure of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
  • Apply the NIST Framework references to specific cybersecurity scenarios

Security Challenges

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework was developed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

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