Modern Cybersecurity Strategies for Enterprises
Modern Cybersecurity Strategies for Enterprises
Protect and Secure Your Enterprise Networks, Digital Business Assets, and Endpoint Security with Tested and Proven Methods
Hi Readers -
This is about my new book on Cybersecurity. This book will help you to understand and aim to build a cybersecurity strategy for your enterprise. With the help of this book, we intend to explain the foundation
and building blocks that will help the readers and audience to understand and define the Cyber Security strategies for their environment. It’s evident that security is a shared responsibility, and everybody is responsible for the same, however, the CxO layer is the one that always owns this piece.
A mature strategy will help the Organization to build a foundational framework. This book will contain but is not limited to the following areas in the Security space:
1. Securing the Cyber landscape
2. Protecting critical data and Infrastructure Component
3. Building blocks to build a matured and secured ecosystem
4. Inclusion and adoption of Regulatory standards
5. Assurance Framework
This book will also help you to understand various building blocks, technologies, Security domains, and frameworks that one should adopt to build a strong and matured ecosystem.
While this book will be focused on defining the Strategy, we will restrict ourselves to any specific products or tools, however, will touch base on various Technologies and frameworks which should be considered while defining the Cyber security strategies. These technologies and frameworks when positioned appropriately and adopted by the Business organization provide a much more stable and mature Cyber Security landscape.
This book is divided into 15 chapters spread across different sections.
Chapter 1: - Overview of Information Security and Cyber Security & problem statement
This chapter will provide a high-level glimpse and understanding of industry vide accepted definitions of Information security and cyber security. We will talk about the problem statements which will act as a primary influencers to have a strategy for Cyber security. This chapter will also cover the basic difference between these two terminologies along with the importance of having a matured strategy.
Chapter 2: - Aligning Security with business objectives and CISOS Role
This chapter will talk about how Business views Security and how we can align it with the CISO objectives to form a matured strategy that should address the security concerns along with meeting the business requirement too. Here we will also include the need to have a strategy for Cyber Security. This chapter will talk about various incidents which have impacted the enterprise world in the near past.
Chapter 3: - Next-generation perimeter solutions
Perimeter security is one of the critical and core components of any security architecture, and no business should be without them. We will talk about firewall overview, next-generation solutions, various modules and components of firewalls, and how they function and should be configured to provide their best usage. This chapter will also provide brief information about Industry leaders for various functionalities.
Chapter 4: - Next-generation Endpoint Security - EDR (Endpoint Detection & Response)
This chapter will talk about another basic building block to building a robust and mature cybersecurity ecosystem. We will focus on how Endpoint security will play a vital role, its types, and its positioning of the same.
Chapter 5: - Security Incident Response (IR) Methodology
Incident management plays a vital role while defining a matured architecture and it's one of the crucial building blocks. This section will talk about the overview o Incident management, IR framework, methodology, various workflow, how it can be adopted in Operations, and its integration with various other components.
Chapter 6: - Cloud Security & identity Management
With the whole world moving towards Cloud, it's evident that Cloud will play a crucial role in the upcoming era. This chapter will talk about various Cloud security topics that should be considered while building the right strategy and its deployment scenarios. Any assets (Corporate or BYOD) which are used to enhance business productivity must remain confidential and secure at all times and hence Data Security plays a very crucial role while defining the Cyber security strategy for any Organization. This chapter will talk about the importance of Data Security and its essential elements.
Another important aspect of any security framework is – Identity & access management. The identity of the users and their access methodology plays a crucial role to ensure that the CIA (Confidential, Integrity, and Availability) is maintained. It provides assurance and helps the organization keep track of its activities. This chapter will focus on providing an overview of Identity and its access management, importance, and various components that will strengthen its deployment.
Chapter 7: - Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (PT)
No matter what security measures and technologies any enterprise is using, we always have vulnerabilities around us. This chapter will focus on giving an overview of different types of Vulnerabilities and how they impact our environment, and what should be our strategy to establish a robust vulnerability management framework that will help us to have continuous monitoring and mitigation exercise. The 2nd half of this chapter will focus on Application security (AppSec) which is the process through which organizations review the applications they are using and make them more secure via different methodologies. AppSec plays a vital component while building the overall strategy and architecture as this helps the Organization to have protection at the Application layer. This chapter will cover the basic working principle of Application security along with different types, importance, and deployment scenario.
Chapter 8: - Critical components of Infrastructure (private and public Cloud)
While the whole world is shifting toward Cloud, it's evident that we need to understand the Cloud world better and stitch them into our Security ecosystem. This chapter will illustrate different cloud components at the Infrastructure layer which need to be secured to maintain and uplift the security posture of the Organization.
The goal of the Information security framework is to protect the CIA from any Organization. Data & Asset classification helps the Organization to achieve the CIA and the classification reflects the impact on the CIA if compromised. This section of the book will help us to understand the industry norms and recommendations to implement Data & Asset Classification process, its importance, and the RACI matrix.
Chapter 9: - Importance of Regulatory requirements and Business Continuity
This chapter will help us to focus on the approach to identify the appropriate compliance requirement against any Enterprise. Once the Requirement is confirmed, we will also talk about how it will be aligned with Business requirements and serve the purpose of protecting the digital assets of the Organizations.
This chapter will help us to understand various deciding factors which help the Organization to select the Regulatory standards they need to follow. We will also understand briefly different Compliance which will be applicable as a common framework and as a recommended approach.
Cybersecurity is a critical component of the Business Continuity plan of any Enterprise along with its policies and processes mapped to core technologies and business applications and the protection of sensitive data must be taken into consideration. This chapter will focus on the general overview of Business Continuity and its modules, integration of cybersecurity and BCP, and alignment of Business Continuity with required Compliance standards. We will also include the best practices we should= consider while implementing Business Continuity for cyber security.
Chapter 10: - Risk management (methodology, assessment, prioritization, and treatment)
Risk Management is the fundamental principle of Cyber Security. It’s a process of identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and addressing the Enterprise’s cyber security threats. This chapter will help us to understand the end-to-end Risk management process, including the methodology, assessment, and treatment plan. Once the risk assessment exercise is over, it’s important to prioritize the risk to perform the risk treatment exercise This chapter will help us to understand how to prioritize the risk for any Organization and the way to prioritize and mitigate it.
Chapter 11: - People, Process, and Awareness
Communication and collaboration are key to Information security for any Enterprise. Staffing and resourcing play a vital role in any strategic initiative and so is our space. This chapter will help us to spend some time doing a deep dive to lay out some structure which will help us to build our team with the right skill sets and at the same time justify the budget too. We will also talk about various controls and frameworks we should adopt to monitor our partners. This will help us to reduce any possible risk to the Organization’s overall ecosystem.
The people of any Organization are the biggest asset they have and hence it's evident that they should understand the importance of Security. This chapter will help us to focus on the importance of Security awareness and training exercises which will ensure that the employees are aware of security hygiene and understand the protection risk.
Chapter 12: - Threat Intelligence & Next-generation SIEM solution
Threat Intelligence is the collection of different information which any organization will use to understand the threats and potential risks they have. This chapter will help us to understand threat intelligence in-depth, its different types, and the best way it can be used to get better visibility. Monitoring the environment continuously is the key principle to protecting it. This chapter will be detailed about how it happens, its benefits, and working principles along with industry-leading solutions and trends. We will also cover the latest products and technology brief which will help you to choose the right solutions while building your cyber security ecosystem.
Chapter 13: - Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Since the world is moving towards Cloud, we should certainly focus on Secure posture management exclusive to the Cloud landscape. CSPM is designed specifically to understand various misconfiguration and compliance risks in the Cloud. This chapter will help you to understand CSPM in a detailed manner along with its need, importance, benefits, working principle examples, and recommendations.
Chapter 14: - Implementation Guidelines & Template walkthrough
This chapter will aim to enumerate and detail the steps that any Enterprise should follow to develop its Cybersecurity strategies. This chapter will explain the entire lifecycle of Strategy development which will help the enterprise to develop and review the cyber security strategy for their organization.
This chapter will also include a brief on what the Cybersecurity strategy template should look like with a few examples for better understanding. The template will cover all the major points from the strategy guidelines.
Chapter 15: - Best practices on critical components and Industry-wide adopted recommendations
Prevention is better than cure. This chapter will focus on a couple of best practices for Cyber security space that should be considered while framing your entire ecosystem. These are not mandatory requirements but certainly, uplift the overall posture of Cyber security space for any Organization. The way our current threat landscape looks with an unprecedented increase in attacks and data breaches, the Security world needs a continuous review and adoption process to mitigate the risks and threats around them. We will also include some of the emerging technologies and recommendations which will play a vital role in uplifting the overall security posture of any enterprise.
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