Mastering Defensive Security: Effective techniques to secure your Windows, Linux, IoT, and cloud infrastructure

by Cesar Bravo, Darren Kitchen

Overview

Every organization has its own data and digital assets that need to be protected against an ever-growing threat landscape that compromises the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of crucial data. Therefore, it is important to train professionals in the latest defensive security skills and tools to secure them. Mastering Defensive Security provides you with in-depth knowledge of the latest cybersecurity threats along with the best tools and techniques needed to keep your infrastructure secure.
The book begins by establishing a strong foundation of cybersecurity concepts and advances to explore the latest security technologies such as Wireshark, Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA), Burp Suite, OpenVAS, and Nmap, hardware threats such as a weaponized Raspberry Pi, and hardening techniques for Unix, Windows, web applications, and cloud infrastructures. As you make progress through the chapters, you'll get to grips with several advanced techniques such as malware analysis, security automation, computer forensics, and vulnerability assessment, which will help you to leverage pentesting for security.
By the end of this book, you'll have become familiar with creating your own defensive security tools using IoT devices and developed advanced defensive security skills.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800206090
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	01/06/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	528
File size:	27 MB
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About the Author

Cesar Bravo is a researcher and inventor who has more than 100 inventions related to cybersecurity that are being patented in the US, Germany, China, and Japan. Those inventions include cybersecurity hardware, secure IoT systems and devices, and even cybersecurity systems for autonomous cars.
He loves to share knowledge and he has been working with several universities to teach cybersecurity at all levels, from introductory courses for non-IT people up to a master's degree in cybersecurity (for which he has also served as a thesis director).
In recent years, Cesar has become a recognized speaker (including delivering a TEDx talk), giving international presentations about cybersecurity and innovation in the UK, Germany, Mexico, the US, and Spain.