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Making Sense of Cybersecurity
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Making Sense of Cybersecurity

by Thomas Kranz
October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
8h 37m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
Content preview from Making Sense of Cybersecurity

2 Cybersecurity: Everyone’s problem

This chapter covers

  • Developing a list of organizational assets that hackers might target
  • Building a profile of potential attackers based on your assets
  • Evaluating your existing defenses
  • Using the three pillars of a successful cybersecurity strategy (relevant, proportional, and sustainable)
  • Using CVE details and CVSS to understand and prioritize newly discovered security issues

Everyone will get hacked. No matter how great your defenses are or how well prepared you are, it’s a matter of when, not if. It happens to us all. Companies can spend millions of dollars on security tools and technologies and still end up in the news for a massive data breach. The important thing, then, is to be prepared for the hack ...

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