10 Machine Learning Blueprints You Should Know for Cybersecurity. Protect your systems and boost your defenses with cutting-edge AI techniques

Rajvardhan Oak

Machine learning in security is harder than other domains because of the changing nature and abilities of adversaries, high stakes, and a lack of ground-truth data. This book will prepare machine learning practitioners to effectively handle tasks in the challenging yet exciting cybersecurity space.The book begins by helping you understand how advanced ML algorithms work and shows you practical examples of how they can be applied to security-specific problems with Python – by using open source datasets or instructing you to create your own. In one exercise, you’ll also use GPT 3.5, the secret sauce behind ChatGPT, to generate an artificial dataset of fabricated news. Later, you’ll find out how to apply the expert knowledge and human-in-the-loop decision-making that is necessary in the cybersecurity space. This book is designed to address the lack of proper resources available for individuals interested in transitioning into a data scientist role in cybersecurity. It concludes with case studies, interview questions, and blueprints for four projects that you can use to enhance your portfolio.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to apply machine learning algorithms to detect malware, fake news, deep fakes, and more, along with implementing privacy-preserving machine learning techniques such as differentially private ML.

125 sposobów na bezpieczeństwo sieci. Wydanie II

Andrew Lockhart

Praktyczny przewodnik po technikach zabezpieczania sieci komputerowych Jak sprawnie zabezpieczyć system? Jak zapewnić sobie prywatność w internecie? Jak skutecznie walczyć z sieciowymi włamywaczami? W naszych domach montujemy solidne zamki i drzwi, chronimy samochody wymyślnymi alarmami, w firmach zakładamy systemy monitoringu, jednak nadal wiele osób nie zwraca wystarczającej uwagi na bezpieczeństwo komputerów w sieciach domowych oraz korporacyjnych. Luki w systemach informatycznych powodują każdego roku straty rzędu miliardów dolarów, a przecież dostępnych jest wiele narzędzi i technik, które pozwalają skutecznie zabezpieczyć komputery przed atakami crackerów. "125 sposobów na bezpieczeństwo w sieci. Wydanie II" to zaktualizowany i rozbudowany zbiór praktycznych porad dotyczących zabezpieczania systemów informatycznych przed atakami. Dzięki wskazówkom przygotowanym przez cenionych profesjonalistów dowiesz się, jak stosować najnowsze narzędzia systemowe i niezależne programy do zabezpieczania systemów i danych, ochrony własnej prywatności w sieci czy bezpiecznego łączenia zdalnych maszyn. Nauczysz się także zastawiać pułapki na sieciowych napastników, wykrywać ich obecność w sieci i szybko przywracać normalne funkcjonowanie systemu po ewentualnym ataku. Zabezpieczanie systemów Windows i uniksowych Zapewnianie prywatności w internecie Konfigurowanie i testowanie zapór sieciowych Bezpieczne korzystanie z usług Zabezpieczanie sieci przewodowych i bezprzewodowych Monitorowanie działania sieci Stosowanie silnego szyfrowania i uwierzytelniania Wykrywanie włamań i przywracanie działania sieci Stosuj sprawdzone sposoby zapewniania bezpieczeństwa w sieci.

A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience. A how-to guide for every CISO to build a resilient security program

Debra Baker, Ray Rothrock

The rising number of cybersecurity attacks is a top concern for organizations across the globe. Amid the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, CISOs play a crucial role in fortifying organizational defenses and safeguarding sensitive data. Written by the CEO of TrustedCISO, with 30+ years of experience, A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience will take you through some of the latest and most significant large-scale cyber-attacks and guide you on how to make your network cyber-resilient so your company can quickly recover from any attack.You’ll begin with an in-depth analysis of a ransomware attack targeting a fictional company, BigCo, understanding its impact and response strategies, and then delve into fundamental security policies and controls. As you progress, you’ll find that every chapter provides actionable skills and insights suitable for various levels of expertise, from basic to intermediate. Toward the end, you’ll explore advanced concepts such as zero-trust, managed detection and response, security baselines, data and asset classification, and the integration of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to build, manage, and improve a resilient cybersecurity program, ensuring your organization remains protected against evolving threats.

Active Directory Disaster Recovery. Expert guidance on planning and implementing Active Directory disaster recovery plans with this book and

Florian Rommel

Advanced Blockchain Development. Build highly secure, decentralized applications and conduct secure transactions

Imran Bashir, Narayan Prusty

Blockchain technology is a distributed ledger with applications in industries such as finance, government, and media. This Learning Path is your guide to building blockchain networks using Ethereum, JavaScript, and Solidity. You will get started by understanding the technical foundations of blockchain technology, including distributed systems, cryptography and how this digital ledger keeps data secure. Further into the chapters, you’ll gain insights into developing applications using Ethereum and Hyperledger. As you build on your knowledge of Ether security, mining, smart contracts, and Solidity, you’ll learn how to create robust and secure applications that run exactly as programmed without being affected by fraud, censorship, or third-party interference. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll explore how blockchain solutions can be implemented in applications such as IoT apps, in addition to its use in currencies. This Learning Path also highlights how you can increase blockchain scalability, and discusses the future scope of this fascinating and powerful technology. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be equipped with the skills you need to tackle pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle and confidently design and deploy decentralized applications.

Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing. Defend your systems from methodized and proficient attackers

Chiheb Chebbi

It has always been difficult to gain hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of advanced penetration testing techniques and vulnerability assessment and management. This book will be your one-stop solution to compromising complex network devices and modern operating systems. This book provides you with advanced penetration testing techniques that will help you exploit databases, web and application servers, switches or routers, Docker, VLAN, VoIP, and VPN.With this book, you will explore exploitation abilities such as offensive PowerShell tools and techniques, CI servers, database exploitation, Active Directory delegation, kernel exploits, cron jobs, VLAN hopping, and Docker breakouts. Moving on, this book will not only walk you through managing vulnerabilities, but will also teach you how to ensure endpoint protection. Toward the end of this book, you will also discover post-exploitation tips, tools, and methodologies to help your organization build an intelligent security system.By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills and methodologies needed to breach infrastructures and provide complete endpoint protection for your system.

Advanced Network Simulations Simplified. Practical guide for wired, Wi-Fi (802.11n/ac/ax), and LTE networks using ns-3

Dr Anil Kumar Rangisetti

Network simulation is a powerful technique that uses software programs to replicate the behaviors of real networks. Network simulators are programs that can predict the performance of computer networks or wireless communication networks. This book is your hands-on guide to ns-3, a script-based simulator that allows for learning, experimenting, and evaluating wired, wireless (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax), and 4G long-term evolution (LTE) networks quickly and at low cost.You’ll begin by learning how to install and use ns-3, along with exploring its key features such as building blocks for creating a variety of wired or wireless network topologies, installing suitable protocols and applications, identifying and resolving networking issues, and systematically evaluating network performance. As you make progress, you’ll gain a clear understanding of simulation errors, exceptions, and abrupt events. You’ll also discover how to set up and evaluate Ethernet, Wi-Fi (802.11n/ac/ax) LANs, ad-hoc, and LTE networks. The concluding chapters discuss LTE advanced topics such as capacity planning, site surveys, radio resources, mobility management, and interference handling. By the end of this simulation book, you’ll be able to use ns-3 to implement, analyze, debug, and evaluate the performance of wired or wireless networks, as well as setting up custom test scenarios.

Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments. Employ the most advanced pentesting techniques and tools to build highly-secured systems and environments - Second Edition

Lee Allen, Kevin Cardwell

The defences continue to improve and become more and more common, but this book will provide you with a number or proven techniques to defeat the latest defences on the networks. The methods and techniques contained will provide you with a powerful arsenal of best practices to increase your penetration testing successes.The processes and methodology will provide you techniques that will enable you to be successful, and the step by step instructions of information gathering and intelligence will allow you to gather the required information on the targets you are testing. The exploitation and post-exploitation sections will supply you with the tools you would need to go as far as the scope of work will allow you. The challenges at the end of each chapter are designed to challenge you and provide real-world situations that will hone and perfect your penetration testing skills. You will start with a review of several well respected penetration testing methodologies, and following this you will learn a step-by-step methodology of professional security testing, including stealth, methods of evasion, and obfuscation to perform your tests and not be detected!The final challenge will allow you to create your own complex layered architecture with defences and protections in place, and provide the ultimate testing range for you to practice the methods shown throughout the book. The challenge is as close to an actual penetration test assignment as you can get!