Cybersecurity Essentials You Always Wanted to Know
Description
- Cybersecurity governance risk and compliance
- Cybersecurity standards, roles, and processes
- Cybersecurity disciplines and functions
- Cybersecurity planning, execution, and control
Cybersecurity Essentials You Always Wanted to Know is a complete yet compact and easily understandable guide for anyone wanting to learn the fundamentals of Cybersecurity.
The proper application of cybersecurity standards, tools, and methodologies can be greatly beneficial in reducing cyber threats and risks in organizations. But what exactly is cybersecurity and is it always beneficial to understand cybersecurity? Essentials of Cybersecurity provides a firm foundational understanding of the major cybersecurity principles when it is appropriate to use selected principles, and the commonly used cybersecurity practices.
By understanding the basics of cybersecurity through this book, one will be able to adapt cyber response processes to the changing cyber threat landscape, deploy appropriate cybersecurity controls, and optimize the effectiveness of existing controls.
The reader will gain an understanding of the following from this book:
- An overview of cybersecurity governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) practices.
- An overall understanding of cybersecurity, its standards, and best practices
- The various aspects of cybersecurity planning, execution, and evaluation
- The applicability of cybersecurity in software development, IT operations, Incident Response (IR), and business resilience practices.
- The concepts and practices involved in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and reporting.
- An introduction to cloud security, a key aspect of cybersecurity
