Book description
See how privileges, passwords, vulnerabilities, and exploits can be combined as an attack vector and breach any organization. Cyber attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication. It is not a matter of if, but when, your organization will be breached. Attackers target the perimeter network, but, in recent years, have refocused their efforts on the path of least resistance: users and their privileges.There is no one silver bullet to provide the protection you need against all vectors and stages of an attack. And while some new and innovative solutions will help protect against or detect the initial infection, they are not guaranteed to stop 100% of malicious activity. The volume and frequency of privilege-based attacks continues to increase and test the limits of existing security controls and solution implementations.
Privileged Attack Vectors details the risks associated with poor privilege management, the techniques that hackers and insiders leverage, and the defensive measures that organizations must adopt to protect against a breach, protect against lateral movement, and improve the ability to detect hacker activity or insider threats in order to mitigate the impact.
What You’ll Learn
- Know how identities, credentials, passwords, and exploits can be leveraged to escalate privileges during an attack
- Implement defensive and auditing strategies to mitigate the threats and risk
- Understand a 12-step privileged access management Implementation plan
- Consider deployment and scope, including risk, auditing, regulations, and oversight solutions
Security management professionals, new security professionals, and auditors looking to understand and solve privileged escalation threats
Table of contents
- Cover
- Frontmatter
- 1. Privileges
- 2. Shared User Credentials
- 3. Password Hacking
- 4. Password Less Authentication
- 5. Privilege Escalation
- 6. Insider Threats
- 7. Threat Hunting
- 8. Data-Centric Audit and Protection
- 9. Privileged Monitoring
- 10. Privileged Access Management
- 11. PAM Architecture
- 12. Break Glass
- 13. Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
- 14. Internet of Things (IoT)
- 15. The Cloud
- 16. Mobile Devices
- 17. Ransomware
- 18. Secured DevOps (SDevOps)
- 19. Regulatory Compliance
- 20. Sample PAM Use Cases
- 21. Deployment Considerations
- 22. Privileged Account Management Implementation
- 23. Key Takeaways
- 24. Conclusion
- Backmatter
Product information
- Title: Privileged Attack Vectors: Building Effective Cyber-Defense Strategies to Protect Organizations
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2017
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484230480
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