Build an effective vulnerability management strategy to protect your organization's assets, applications, and data. Today's network environments are dynamic, requiring multiple defenses to mitigate vulnerabilities and stop data breaches. In the modern enterprise, everything connected to the network is a target. Attack surfaces are rapidly expanding to include not only traditional servers and desktops, but also routers, printers, cameras, and other IOT devices. It doesn't matter whether an organization uses LAN, WAN, wireless, or even a modern PAN--savvy criminals have more potential entry points than ever before. To stay ahead of these threats, IT and security leaders must be aware of exposures and&nbsp;understand their potential impact. Asset Attack Vectors&nbsp;will help you build a vulnerability management program designed to work in the modern threat environment. Drawing on years of combined experience, the authors detail the latest techniques for threat analysis, risk measurement, and regulatory reporting. They also outline practical service level agreements (SLAs) for vulnerability management and patch management. Vulnerability management needs to be more than a compliance check box; it should be the foundation of your organization's cybersecurity strategy. Read Asset Attack Vectors&nbsp;to get ahead of threats and protect your organization with an effective asset protection strategy. What You'll Learn <ul> <li>Create comprehensive assessment and risk identification policies and procedures</li> <li>Implement a complete vulnerability management workflow in nine easy steps</li> <li>Understand the implications of active, dormant, and carrier vulnerability states</li> <li>Develop, deploy, and maintain custom and commercial vulnerability management programs</li> <li>Discover the best strategies for vulnerability remediation, mitigation, and removal</li> <li>Automate credentialed scans that leverage least-privilege access principles</li> <li>Read real-world case studies that share successful strategies and reveal potential pitfalls</li> </ul> Who This Book Is For New and intermediate security management professionals, auditors, and information technology staff looking to build an effective vulnerability management program and defend against asset based cyberattacks

Asset Attack Vectors: Building Effective Vulnerability Management Strategies to Protect Organizations

Computers & Technology

Haber, Morey J.

Hibbert, Brad

Networking & Cloud Computing

Apress

Discover how poor identity and privilege management can be leveraged to compromise accounts and credentials within an organization. Learn how role-based identity assignments, entitlements, and auditing strategies can be implemented to mitigate the threats leveraging accounts and identities and how to manage compliance for regulatory initiatives. As a solution, Identity Access Management (IAM) has emerged as the cornerstone of enterprise security.&nbsp; Managing accounts, credentials, roles, certification, and attestation reporting for all resources is now a security and compliance mandate. When identity theft and poor identity management is leveraged as an attack vector, risk and vulnerabilities increase exponentially. As cyber attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, it is not a matter of&nbsp;if, but&nbsp;when,&nbsp;your organization will have an incident. Threat actors target accounts, users, and their associated identities, to conduct their malicious activities through privileged attacks and asset vulnerabilities. Identity Attack Vectors details the risks associated with poor identity management practices, the techniques that threat actors and insiders leverage, and the operational best practices that organizations should adopt to protect against identity theft and account compromises, and to develop an effective identity governance program. What You Will Learn <ul> <li>Understand the concepts behind an identity and how their associated credentials and accounts can be leveraged as an attack vector </li> <li>Implement an effective Identity Access Management (IAM) program to manage identities and roles, and provide certification for regulatory compliance </li> <li>See where identity management controls play a part of the cyber kill chain and how privileges should be managed as a potential weak link </li> <li>Build upon industry standards to integrate key identity management technologies into a corporate ecosystem </li> <li>Plan for a successful deployment, implementation scope, measurable risk reduction, auditing and discovery, regulatory reporting, and oversight based on real-world strategies to prevent identity attack vectors</li> </ul> Who This Book Is For Management and implementers in IT operations, security, and auditing looking to understand and implement an identity access management program and manage privileges in these environments

Identity Attack Vectors: Implementing an Effective Identity and Access Management Solution

Rolls, Darran

See how privileges, insecure passwords, administrative rights, and remote access can be combined as an attack vector to breach any organization. Cyber attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication. It is not a matter of 
if, but 
when, your organization will be breached. Threat actors target the path of least resistance: users and their privileges.\nIn decades past, an entire enterprise might be sufficiently managed through just a handful of credentials. Today’s environmental complexity has seen an explosion of privileged credentials for many different account types such as domain and local administrators, operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux, macOS, etc.), directory services, databases, applications, cloud instances, networking hardware, Internet of Things (IoT), social media, and so many more. When unmanaged, these privileged credentials pose a significant threat from external hackers and insider threats. We are experiencing an expanding universe of privileged accounts almost everywhere.\nThere is no one solution or strategy to provide the protection you need against all vectors and stages of an attack. And while some new and innovative products will help protect against or detect against a privilege attack, they are not guaranteed to stop 100% of malicious activity. The volume and frequency of privilege-based attacks continues to increase and test the limits of existing security controls and solution implementations.\nPrivileged Attack Vectors details the risks associated with poor privilege management, the techniques that threat actors leverage, and the defensive measures that organizations should adopt to protect against an incident, protect against lateral movement, and improve the ability to detect malicious activity due to the inappropriate usage of privileged credentials. 
This revised and expanded second edition covers new attack vectors, has updated definitions for privileged access management (PAM), new strategies for defense, tested empirical steps for a successful implementation, and includes new disciplines for least privilege endpoint management and privileged remote access.\nWhat You Will Learn\nKnow how identities, accounts, credentials, passwords, and exploits can be leveraged to escalate privileges during an attack 
Implement defensive and monitoring strategies to mitigate privilege threats and risk 
Understand a 10-step universal privilege management implementation plan to guide you through a successful privilege access management journey 
Develop a comprehensive model for documenting risk, compliance, and reporting based on privilege session activity\nWho This Book Is For\nSecurity management professionals, new security professionals, and auditors looking to understand and solve privilege access management problems\nFrom the Back Cover\nSee how privileges, insecure passwords, administrative rights, and remote access can be combined as an attack vector to breach any organization. Cyber attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication. It is not a matter of 
if, but 
when, your organization will be breached. Threat actors target the path of least resistance: users and their privileges.\nIn decades past, an entire enterprise might be sufficiently managed through just a handful of credentials. Today’s environmental complexity has seen an explosion of privileged credentials for many different account types such as domain and local administrators, operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux, macOS, etc.), directory services, databases, applications, cloud instances, networking hardware, Internet of Things (IoT), social media, and so many more. When unmanaged, these privileged credentials pose a significant threat from external hackers and insider threats. We are experiencing an expanding universe of privileged accounts almost everywhere.\nThere is no one solution or strategy to provide the protection you need against all vectors and stages of a

Privileged Attack Vectors: Building Effective Cyber-Defense Strategies to Protect Organizations

Cyberattacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, targeting everything owned, managed, and serviced from the cloud. Today, there is widespread consensus―it is not a matter of if, but rather when an organization will be breached. Threat actors typically target the path of least resistance. With the accelerating adoption of cloud technologies and remote work, the path of least resistance is shifting in substantive ways. In recent years, attackers have realigned their efforts, focusing on remaining undetected, monetization after exploitation, and publicly shaming organizations after a breach. 
New, innovative, and useful products continue to emerge and offer some cloud protection, but they also have distinct limitations. No single, standalone solution or strategy can effectively protect against all cloud attack vectors or identify all malicious activity. The simple fact is that the cloud is based on a company’s assets being offered as services. As a result, the best security any organization can achieve is to establish controls and procedures in conjunction with services that are licensed in the cloud. 
Cloud Attack Vectors details the risks associated with cloud deployments, the techniques threat actors leverage, the empirically-tested defensive measures organizations should adopt, and shows how to improve detection of malicious activity. 
What You’ll Learn 
Know the key definitions pertaining to cloud technologies, threats, and cybersecurity solutions Understand how entitlements, permissions, rights, identities, accounts, credentials, and exploits can be leveraged to breach a cloud environment Implement defensive and monitoring strategies to mitigate cloud threats, including those unique to cloud and hybrid cloud environments Develop a comprehensive model for documenting risk, compliance, and reporting based on your cloud implementation\nWho This Book Is ForNew security professionals, entry-level cloud security engineers, managers embarking on digital transformation, and auditors looking to understand security and compliance risks associated with the cloud\nFrom the Back Cover\nCyberattacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, targeting everything owned, managed, and serviced from the cloud. Today, there is widespread consensus―it is not a matter of if, but rather when an organization will be breached. Threat actors typically target the path of least resistance. With the accelerating adoption of cloud technologies and remote work, the path of least resistance is shifting in substantive ways. In recent years, attackers have realigned their efforts, focusing on remaining undetected, monetization after exploitation, and publicly shaming organizations after a breach. 
New, innovative, and useful products continue to emerge and offer some cloud protection, but they also have distinct limitations. No single, standalone solution or strategy can effectively protect against all cloud attack vectors or identify all malicious activity. The simple fact is that the cloud is based on a company’s assets being offered as services. As a result, the best security any organization can achieve is to establish controls and procedures in conjunction with services that are licensed in the cloud. 
Cloud Attack Vectors details the risks associated with cloud deployments, the techniques threat actors leverage, the empirically-tested defensive measures organizations should adopt, and shows how to improve detection of malicious activity. 
What You’ll Learn\nKnow the key definitions pertaining to cloud technologies, threats, and cybersecurity solutions Understand how entitlements, permissions, rights, identities, accounts, credentials, and exploits can be leveraged to breach a cloud environment Implement defensive and monitoring strategies to mitigate cloud threats, including those unique to cloud and hybrid cloud environments Develop a comprehensive model for documenting risk, compliance, and reporting based on y

Cloud Attack Vectors: Building Effective Cyber-Defense Strategies to Protect Cloud Resources

Hills, Christopher

Chappell, Brian

Identity Attack Vectors: Strategically Designing and Implementing Identity Security, Second Edition