Название: Cyber Security: A practitioner's guide
Автор: David Sutton
Издательство: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Год: 2017
Страниц: 224
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Nearly every day we hear news that customer data has been compromised or new bugs have been discovered, leaving personal details open to the risk of falling into the wrong hands. Cyber security is more essential today than ever, not just in the workplace but at home too. This book covers the various types of cyber threat and explains what you can do to mitigate these risks and keep your data secure. The book is crucial reading for businesses wanting to better understand security risks and ensure the safety of organisational and customer data but will also be valuable to anyone concerned with data protection.

Whilst there are laws, regulations and rules regarding the protection of physical and information assets, there are none that apply to virtual assets within cyberspace. However, in the realm of cyber security, there are some clear objectives:

- to protect the overall security of cyberspace;
- to plan for disruptive incidents and to exercise those plans;
- to improve the awareness of cyberspace users;
- to share threat and vulnerability information relating to cyberspace;
- to address critical interdependencies within cyberspace.

Who should read this book?
The straight answer to this is probably anyone who has an interest in or concerns about cyber security. It is aimed at both the public and private sectors and should have appeal to home users; students studying information security, computer science and other information technology-related subjects; and information security practitioners and their line managers, whether technical or not.

The aim is to inform the reader about the realities of cyber security, detailing the issues faced by both individuals and organisations, the likely targets of cyber-attacks, the vulnerabilities and impacts these attacks may cause, the kinds of threat and how to go about protecting an individual’s or organisation’s assets against cyber-attacks.