Cyber Strategy

Author : Carol A. Siegel
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000048500
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyber Strategy written by Carol A. Siegel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber Strategy: Risk-Driven Security and Resiliency provides a process and roadmap for any company to develop its unified Cybersecurity and Cyber Resiliency strategies. It demonstrates a methodology for companies to combine their disassociated efforts into one corporate plan with buy-in from senior management that will efficiently utilize resources, target high risk threats, and evaluate risk assessment methodologies and the efficacy of resultant risk mitigations. The book discusses all the steps required from conception of the plan from preplanning (mission/vision, principles, strategic objectives, new initiatives derivation), project management directives, cyber threat and vulnerability analysis, cyber risk and controls assessment to reporting and measurement techniques for plan success and overall strategic plan performance. In addition, a methodology is presented to aid in new initiative selection for the following year by identifying all relevant inputs. Tools utilized include: Key Risk Indicators (KRI) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cyber Security Framework (CSF) Target State Maturity interval mapping per initiative Comparisons of current and target state business goals and critical success factors A quantitative NIST-based risk assessment of initiative technology components Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed (RACI) diagrams for Cyber Steering Committee tasks and Governance Boards’ approval processes Swimlanes, timelines, data flow diagrams (inputs, resources, outputs), progress report templates, and Gantt charts for project management The last chapter provides downloadable checklists, tables, data flow diagrams, figures, and assessment tools to help develop your company’s cybersecurity and cyber resiliency strategic plan.

Author : Brandon Valeriano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190618116
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyber Strategy written by Brandon Valeriano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some pundits claim cyber weaponry is the most important military innovation in decades, a transformative new technology that promises a paralyzing first-strike advantage difficult for opponents to deter. Yet, what is cyber strategy? How do actors use cyber capabilities to achieve a position of advantage against rival states? This book examines the emerging art of cyber strategy and its integration as part of a larger approach to coercion by states in the international system between 2000 and 2014. To this end, the book establishes a theoretical framework in the coercion literature for evaluating the efficacy of cyber operations. Cyber coercion represents the use of manipulation, denial, and punishment strategies in the digital frontier to achieve some strategic end. As a contemporary form of covert action and political warfare, cyber operations rarely produce concessions and tend to achieve only limited, signaling objectives. When cyber operations do produce concessions between rival states, they tend to be part of a larger integrated coercive strategy that combines network intrusions with other traditional forms of statecraft such as military threats, economic sanctions, and diplomacy. The books finds that cyber operations rarely produce concessions in isolation. They are additive instruments that complement traditional statecraft and coercive diplomacy. The book combines an analysis of cyber exchanges between rival states and broader event data on political, military, and economic interactions with case studies on the leading cyber powers: Russia, China, and the United States. The authors investigate cyber strategies in their integrated and isolated contexts, demonstrating that they are useful for maximizing informational asymmetries and disruptions, and thus are important, but limited coercive tools. This empirical foundation allows the authors to explore how leading actors employ cyber strategy and the implications for international relations in the 21st century. While most military plans involving cyber attributes remain highly classified, the authors piece together strategies based on observations of attacks over time and through the policy discussion in unclassified space. The result will be the first broad evaluation of the efficacy of various strategic options in a digital world.

Author : Kenneth Geers
Publisher : Kenneth Geers
ISBN 13 : 9949904056
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Cyber Security written by Kenneth Geers and published by Kenneth Geers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Banks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting the Cyber Storm written by Ronald Banks and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an extremely relevant must read for anyone concerned with the current cyber threat against United States' national and economic security. Over the past few years, the U.S. has increasingly been the victim of sophisticated and significant cyber attacks by state-sponsored and malicious individual actors. These threats have progressively targeted the U.S. military and political systems, financial institutions, healthcare systems, electric grid, dams, and retail sectors. The total extent of damage and loss we may never know... until it's too late. In 2019, revenues from malicious cyber actors exceeded the combined revenues of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. In a single year more than 3 billion U.S. accounts were hacked. These malicious actors are aggressively investing in talent, technology and tactics. They are coordinated, trained, highly sophisticated, and most importantly...undeterred.Despite formidable U.S. government and private industry cyber capabilities, the nation lacks the necessary strategy for integrated cybersecurity. Its current policy leaves its privately-owned critical infrastructure struggling to defend itself against a rapidly growing cyber storm which threatens to undermine and envelope U.S. cyber defenses. The result is a nation highly vulnerable to cyber threats which could expose the U.S. to a potentially catastrophic impact on national security and the economy.Through detailed analysis and real-world military strategy, healthcare, and financial sector experience, the author presents a pragmatic remedy to securing the nation against cyber threats. Using coercion and other instruments of statecraft, this book explores the art of strategy to devise a public-private means to effectively influence cyber threats, along with the vernacular and constructs necessary to carry it out. . This book goes beyond academic policy; it is a battle-cry to action offering practical solutions for every nation's leadership when Confronting the Cyber Storm."In this book, Banks has concisely laid out a compelling, well-documented case for a coercive strategy as part of an overall national cybersecurity strategy. His case studies make clear the need. His recommendations reveal a deep understanding of the threat as well as of the tools available to government and private industry to meet it."Eric J. McNulty, MA, Associate Director and Program Co-director Harvard University's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the Harvard Chan School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government."Banks delivers an incredibly relevant book for our time. Full of rich detail on the state of all things cyber, he calls out the deficiencies in current Western cyber strategies and pitches a comprehensive coercion strategy to protect our future. The wise will heed his call to action, turn the tables on malicious cyber actors, and give them something meaningful to worry about." Dr. Christian Watt, Colonel, USAF, Associate Dean U.S. Air Force War College "This book offers a much-needed structure to policy discussions surrounding cyber conflict. Col (ret) Banks' important perspectives offer a cogent pathway to think about and operationalize cyber strategy. While many "strategies" for cyberspace exist, they are more often than not policy pronouncements rather than "strategy" in the classical sense of the term. The frameworks he provides offer a pathway for ends, ways and means the United States should go on the offensive as a nation to confront aggressive adversaries in the cyber domain and more broadly integrating cyberspace into our toolkit for national statecraft and grand strategy."Dr. Pano Yannakogeorgos. Clinical Associate ProfessorNew York University, Faculty Lead - MS Global Security, Conflict & Cybercrime

Author : Yuri Diogenes
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178847385X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cybersecurity - Attack and Defense Strategies written by Yuri Diogenes and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Features Gain a clear understanding of the attack methods, and patterns to recognize abnormal behavior within your organization with Blue Team tactics Learn to unique techniques to gather exploitation intelligence, identify risk and demonstrate impact with Red Team and Blue Team strategies A practical guide that will give you hands-on experience to mitigate risks and prevent attackers from infiltrating your system Book DescriptionThe book will start talking about the security posture before moving to Red Team tactics, where you will learn the basic syntax for the Windows and Linux tools that are commonly used to perform the necessary operations. You will also gain hands-on experience of using new Red Team techniques with powerful tools such as python and PowerShell, which will enable you to discover vulnerabilities in your system and how to exploit them. Moving on, you will learn how a system is usually compromised by adversaries, and how they hack user's identity, and the various tools used by the Red Team to find vulnerabilities in a system. In the next section, you will learn about the defense strategies followed by the Blue Team to enhance the overall security of a system. You will also learn about an in-depth strategy to ensure that there are security controls in each network layer, and how you can carry out the recovery process of a compromised system. Finally, you will learn how to create a vulnerability management strategy and the different techniques for manual log analysis.What you will learn Learn the importance of having a solid foundation for your security posture Understand the attack strategy using cyber security kill chain Learn how to enhance your defense strategy by improving your security policies, hardening your network, implementing active sensors, and leveraging threat intelligence Learn how to perform an incident investigation Get an in-depth understanding of the recovery process Understand continuous security monitoring and how to implement a vulnerability management strategy Learn how to perform log analysis to identify suspicious activities Who this book is for This book aims at IT professional who want to venture the IT security domain. IT pentester, Security consultants, and ethical hackers will also find this course useful. Prior knowledge of penetration testing would be beneficial.

Author : Scott N. Romaniuk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429680368
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy written by Scott N. Romaniuk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date comparative overview of the cyber-security strategies and doctrines of the major states and actors in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. The volume offers an introduction to each nation’s cyber-security strategy and policy, along with a list of resources in English that may be consulted for those wishing to go into greater depth. Each chapter is written by a leading academic or policy specialist, and contains the following sections: overview of national cyber-security strategy; concepts and definitions; exploration of cyber-security issues as they relate to international law and governance; critical examinations of cyber partners at home and abroad; legislative developments and processes; dimensions of cybercrime and cyberterrorism; implications of cyber-security policies and strategies. This book will be of much interest to students and practitioners in the fields of cyber-security, national security, strategic studies, foreign policy, and international relations.

Author : David J. Betz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351224522
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyberspace and the State written by David J. Betz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major aim of Cyberspace and the State is to provide conceptual orientation on the new strategic environment of the Information Age. It seeks to restore the equilibrium of policy-makers which has been disturbed by recent cyber scares, as well as to bring clarity to academic debate on the subject particularly in the fields of politics and international relations, war and strategic studies. Its main chapters explore the impact of cyberspace upon the most central aspects of statehood and the state systempower, sovereignty, war, and dominion. It is concerned equally with practice as with theory and may be read in that sense as having two halves.

Author : Thomas Kranz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1638356262
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Cybersecurity written by Thomas Kranz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jargon-busting guide to the key concepts, terminology, and technologies of cybersecurity. Perfect for anyone planning or implementing a security strategy. In Making Sense of Cybersecurity you will learn how to: Develop and incrementally improve your own cybersecurity strategy Detect rogue WiFi networks and safely browse on public WiFi Protect against physical attacks utilizing USB devices or building access cards Use the OODA loop and a hacker mindset to plan out your own attacks Connect to and browse the Dark Web Apply threat models to build, measure, and improve your defenses Respond to a detected cyber attack and work through a security breach Go behind the headlines of famous attacks and learn lessons from real-world breaches that author Tom Kranz has personally helped to clean up. Making Sense of Cybersecurity is full of clear-headed advice and examples that will help you identify risks in your organization and choose the right path to apply the important security concepts. You'll learn the three pillars of a successful security strategy and how to create and apply threat models that will iteratively improve your organization's readiness. Foreword by Naz Markuta. About the technology Someone is attacking your business right now. Understanding the threats, weaknesses, and attacks gives you the power to make better decisions about how to secure your systems. This book guides you through the concepts and basic skills you need to make sense of cybersecurity. About the book Making Sense of Cybersecurity is a crystal-clear overview of common cyber threats written for business and technical readers with no background in security. You’ll explore the core ideas of cybersecurity so you can effectively talk shop, plan a security strategy, and spot your organization’s own weak points. By examining real-world security examples, you’ll learn how the bad guys think and how to handle live threats. What's inside Develop and improve your cybersecurity strategy Apply threat models to build, measure, and improve your defenses Detect rogue WiFi networks and safely browse on public WiFi Protect against physical attacks About the reader For anyone who needs to understand computer security. No IT or cybersecurity experience required. About the author Tom Kranz is a security consultant with over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity and IT. Table of Contents 1 Cybersecurity and hackers 2 Cybersecurity: Everyone’s problem PART 1 3 Understanding hackers 4 External attacks 5 Tricking our way in: Social engineerin 6 Internal attacks 7 The Dark Web: Where is stolen data traded? PART 2 8 Understanding risk 9 Testing your systems 10 Inside the security operations center 11 Protecting the people 12 After the hack

Author : Edward Amoroso
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0123918677
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cyber Attacks written by Edward Amoroso and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyber Attacks, Student Edition, offers a technical, architectural, and management approach to solving the problems of protecting national infrastructure. This approach includes controversial themes such as the deliberate use of deception to trap intruders. This volume thus serves as an attractive framework for a new national strategy for cyber security. A specific set of criteria requirements allows any organization, such as a government agency, to integrate the principles into their local environment. In this edition, each principle is presented as a separate security strategy and illustrated with compelling examples. The book adds 50-75 pages of new material aimed specifically at enhancing the student experience and making it more attractive for instructors teaching courses such as cyber security, information security, digital security, national security, intelligence studies, technology and infrastructure protection. It now also features case studies illustrating actual implementation scenarios of the principles and requirements discussed in the text, along with a host of new pedagogical elements, including chapter outlines, chapter summaries, learning checklists, and a 2-color interior. Furthermore, a new and complete ancillary package includes test bank, lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, case study questions, and more. This text is intended for security practitioners and military personnel as well as for students wishing to become security engineers, network operators, software designers, technology managers, application developers, etc. Provides case studies focusing on cyber security challenges and solutions to display how theory, research, and methods, apply to real-life challenges Utilizes, end-of-chapter case problems that take chapter content and relate it to real security situations and issues Includes instructor slides for each chapter as well as an instructor’s manual with sample syllabi and test bank

Author : Gregory Falco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197526569
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confronting Cyber Risk written by Gregory Falco and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity is a practical leadership handbook defining a new strategy for improving cybersecurity and mitigating cyber risk. Written by two leading experts with extensive professional experience in cybersecurity, the book provides CEOs and cyber newcomers alike with novel, concrete guidance on how to implement a cutting-edge strategy to mitigate an organization's overall risk to malicious cyberattacks. Using short, real-world case studies, the book highlights the need to address attack prevention and the resilience of each digital asset while also accounting for an incident's potential impact on overall operations. In a world of hackers, artificial intelligence, and persistent ransomware attacks, the Embedded Endurance strategy embraces the reality of interdependent digital assets and provides an approach that addresses cyber risk at both the micro- (people, networks, systems and data) and macro-(organizational) levels. Most books about cybersecurity focus entirely on technology; the Embedded Endurance strategy recognizes the need for sophisticated thinking with preventative and resilience measures engaged systematically a cross your organization"--