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Threats

by Adam Shostack
January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
8h 6m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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Index

A

  • access control, 176–182, 185
  • access control list (ACL), 119–120, 177–178
  • account takeover, 72–76
  • artificial intelligence (AI), 53, 81, 116–117
  • attenuation, 152, 173–174
  • authentic/authentication
    • attacks on mechanisms of, 28–30
    • defenses for, 37–38
    • defined, 1
    • denial of service and, 142, 144
    • identifiers and, 2–12
    • organization considerations regarding, 24–25
    • threats against types of, 30–36

B

  • blockchain, 81–82, 117
  • business email compromise, 269–271

C

  • canonicalization, 158
  • ciphertext, 123–124, 127
  • cloud
    • authority and, 160, 164–166
    • denial of service and, 144
    • information disclosure and, 114–116
    • kill chain and, 273–274
    • repudiation in, 80
    • spoofing and, 23
    • tampering with, 53–54
  • confused deputy, 160–162
  • cryptocurrency, 81–82, 133
  • cryptography, 58, 84–85, 123–128

D

  • data
    • computation of, 110–111
    • human connection of, 106–107
    • linkages of, 107
    • in motion, 101–103, 104, 126–127, 129
    • obscured, 99–100
    • processes and, 104–105
    • at rest, 96–101, 104, 125–126, 129
  • denial of service (DoS)
    • abundance and, 146–147
    • amplification and, 141
    • authentication services and, 144
    • authentication targets and, 142
    • besoke ...
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