Author: Arthur Waters

Copyright © 2023 by Pearson Education, Inc.

ISBN-13: 978-0-13-787845-1
ISBN-10: 0-13-787845-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022944665

The definitive practical guide to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Fully covers new components and multi-cloud enhancements!

Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers comprehensive tools for hardening resources, tracking security posture, protecting against attacks, and streamlining security management all in one natively integrated toolset. Now, leading Microsoft security experts Yuri Diogenes and Tom Janetscheck help you apply its robust protection, detection, and response capabilities throughout your operations, protecting workloads running on all your cloud, hybrid, and on-premises platforms.

This guide shows how to make the most of new components, enhancements, and deployment scenarios, as you address todays latest threat vectors. Sharing best practices, expert tips, and optimizations only available from Microsofts Defender for Cloud team, the authors walk through improving everything from policies and governance to incident response and risk management. Whatever your role or experience, theyll help you address new security challenges far more effectively — and save hours, days, or even weeks.

Two of Microsofts leading cloud security experts show how to:

• Assess new threat landscapes, the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and the implications of assume-breach
• Explore Defender for Cloud architecture, use cases, and adoption considerations including multicloud with AWS and GCP
• Plan for effective governance, successful onboarding, and maximum value
• Fully visualize complex cloud estates and systematically reduce their attack surfaces
• Prioritize risks with Secure Score, and leverage at-scale tools to build secure cloud-native apps
• Establish consistent policy enforcement to avoid drift
• Use advanced analytics and machine learning to identify attacks based on signals from all cloud workloads
• Enhance security posture by integrating with the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM/SOAR, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Leverage just-in-time VM access and other enhanced security capabilities

About This Book

• For architects, designers, implementers, SecOps professionals, developers, and security specialists working in Microsoft Azure environments
• For all IT professionals and decision-makers concerned with securing modern hybrid/multicloud environments, cloud-native apps, and PaaS services

Copyright © 2022 Packt Publishing

ISBN 978-1-78995-348-0

Get to grips with network-based attacks and learn to defend your organization’s network and network devices

Key Features

• Exploit vulnerabilities and use custom modules and scripts to crack authentication protocols
• Safeguard against web, mail, database, DNS, voice, video, and collaboration server attacks
• Monitor and protect against brute-force attacks by implementing defense mechanisms

Book Description

With the increased demand for computer systems and the ever-evolving internet, network security now plays an even bigger role in securing IT infrastructures against attacks. Equipped with the knowledge of how to find vulnerabilities and infiltrate organizations through their networks, you’ll be able to think like a hacker and safeguard your organization’s network and networking devices. Network Protocols for Security Professionals will show you how.

This comprehensive guide gradually increases in complexity, taking you from the basics to advanced concepts. Starting with the structure of data network protocols, devices, and breaches, you’ll become familiar with attacking tools and scripts that take advantage of these breaches. Once you’ve covered the basics, you’ll learn about attacks that target networks and network devices. Your learning journey will get more exciting as you perform eavesdropping, learn data analysis, and use behavior analysis for network forensics. As you progress, you’ll develop a thorough understanding of network protocols and how to use methods and tools you learned in the previous parts to attack and protect these protocols.

By the end of this network security book, you’ll be well versed in network protocol security and security countermeasures to protect network protocols.

What you will learn

• Understand security breaches, weaknesses, and protection techniques
• Attack and defend wired as well as wireless networks
• Discover how to attack and defend LAN-, IP-, and TCP/UDP-based vulnerabilities
• Focus on encryption, authorization, and authentication principles
• Gain insights into implementing security protocols the right way
• Use tools and scripts to perform attacks on network devices
• Wield Python, PyShark, and other scripting tools for packet analysis
• Identify attacks on web servers to secure web and email services

Who this book is for

This book is for red team and blue team pentesters, security professionals, or bug hunters. Anyone involved in network protocol management and security will also benefit from this book. Basic experience in network security will be an added advantage.