Sarah Armstrong-Smith

Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset (eBook, ePUB)

Build a Strategic Security Programme to Counteract Threats

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

To counteract a cyber attacker, organizations need to learn to think like one. Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset explores the psychology of cyber warfare and how organizations can defend themselves against attacks.

This book provides a comprehensive look at the inner workings of cyber attackers in the digital age and presents a set of strategies that organizations can deploy to counteract them. With technological advancements in cybersecurity, attackers are increasingly falling back to social engineering and preying on people's vulnerabilities. This book examines different types of cyber attackers, explores their motivations, and examines the methods used. It also reviews key industry developments such as cybercrime as a service, brokers and syndicates, nation-sponsored actors, insider sabotage and the challenges faced by law enforcement in tracking and apprehending attackers.

Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset offers expert, strategic guidance on how organizations can improve their cybersecurity operations in response, including enhancing security awareness training, educating employees to identify and resist manipulation, understanding the importance of cultural variances and how board-level decision-making can directly influence attacks. Written by a renowned cybersecurity leader, the book draws on interviews with ex-criminals and top experts in the field to share rich insights and a wide range of case studies profiling notable groups, such as Anonymous, Lapsus$, FIN7, Nigeria's Yahoo Boys, Sandworm, and the Lazarus Group. The human side of cybersecurity has never been so important.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398614291
• Artikelnr.: 70051970

Autorenporträt

Sarah Armstrong-Smith

Inhaltsangabe

Section
ONE: Understanding types of attack, how they operate and why they are successful; Chapter
01: The evolution of cybercrime in the digital age; Chapter
02: Understanding the will and motivation of attackers; Chapter
03: Types of cyber attack and why they work; Chapter
04: How covid
19 created an epidemic of cybercrime; Chapter
05: Cybercrime as a service
a booming enterprise; Section
TWO: Incidents, lessons learnt and the rise of the insider threat; Chapter
06: Opportunists and activists
how anyone can become a cybercriminal; Chapter
07: New kids on the block
new groups making names for themselves; Chapter
08: Syndicates
how groups work together to build services and avoid detection; Chapter
09: Brokers
law enforcement headaches in tracking cybercrime and money laundering; Chapter
10: Influencers
how nation
sponsored actors change social dynamics; Chapter
11: Insiders
how attackers take advantage of internal loopholes; Section
THREE: Strategies to counteract the criminal mindset and build resilience; Chapter
12: Why your security awareness training sucks, and education is the differentiator; Chapter
13: Are people really the weakest link? Chapter
14: The human factor
mindset, cultural variances and what factors tip people over the edge; Chapter
15: Strategies for counteracting human adversaries; Chapter
16: The board
level response
how decisions are made in times of crisis; Chapter
17: Final thoughts on the direction and evolution of the human adversary;