Making Sense of Cybersecurity

Part 1

Cybersecurity is an immense and complex field, yet it has become one of the most critical and important areas of information technology (IT). In 2020, data showed that the average cost of a data breach for a US company was $8.19 million USD. But the fun doesn’t stop there; the resulting financial damages cost, on average, an extra 11.45. million USD per security incident. Globally, the total cost of cybercrime to the economy is currently $400 billion USD per year—and rising.

Before we can successfully defend our organization from attack, we need to understand the fundamentals of security—and nothing is more important (or fundamental) than thinking like an attacker and understanding how their most common attacks work.

Part 1 of this book ...