PERSONAL CYBERSECURITY – HOW TO AVOID AND RECOVER FROM CYBERCRIME
Book Description:
Discover the most prevalent cyber threats against individual users of all kinds of computing devices. This book teaches you the defensive best practices and state-of-the-art tools available to you to repel each kind of threat.
Personal Cybersecurity addresses the needs of individual users at work and at home. This book covers personal cybersecurity for all modes of personal computing whether on consumer-acquired or company-issued devices: desktop PCs, laptops, mobile devices, smart TVs, WiFi and Bluetooth peripherals, and IoT objects embedded with network-connected sensors. In all these modes, the frequency, intensity, and sophistication of cyberattacks that put individual users at risk are increasing in step with accelerating mutation rates of malware and cybercriminal delivery systems.
Traditional anti-virus software and personal firewalls no longer suffice to guarantee personal security. Users who neglect to learn and adopt the new ways of protecting themselves in their work and private environments put themselves, their associates, and their companies at risk of inconvenience, violation, reputational damage, data corruption, data theft, system degradation, system destruction, financial harm, and criminal disaster. This book shows what actions to take to limit the harm and recover from the damage.
Instead of laying down a code of “thou shalt not” rules that admit of too many exceptions and contingencies to be of much practical use, cloud expert Marvin Waschke equips you with the battlefield intelligence, strategic understanding, survival training, and proven tools you need to intelligently assess the security threats in your environment and most effectively secure yourself from attacks. Through instructive examples and scenarios, the author shows you how to adapt and apply best practices to your own particular circumstances, how to automate and routinize your personal cybersecurity, how to recognize security breaches and act swiftly to seal them, and how to recover losses and restore functionality when attacks succeed.
What You’ll Learn
Discover how computer security works and what it can protect us from
See how a typical hacker attack works
Evaluate computer security threats to the individual user and corporate systems
Identify the critical vulnerabilities of a computer connected to the Internet
Manage your computer to reduce vulnerabilities to yourself and your employer
Discover how the adoption of newer forms of biometric authentication affects you
Stop your router and other online devices from being co-opted into disruptive denial of service attacks
Who This Book Is For
Proficient and technically knowledgeable computer users who are anxious about cybercrime and want to understand the technology behind both attack and defense but do not want to go so far as to become security experts. Some of this audience will be purely home users, but many will be executives, technical managers, developers, and members of IT departments who need to adopt personal practices for their own safety and the protection of corporate systems. Many will want to impart good cybersecurity practices to their colleagues. IT departments tasked with indoctrinating their users with good safety practices may use the book as training material.
Many books on personal computer security tend to be highly prescriptive
with lots of screenshots and values to fill into specific fields. This is nice, but
this aspect of computing changes rapidly and many of these books become
confusing within months of publication because interfaces change. Users need
simple explanations of what they are doing and why they are doing it, not
outdated, detailed instructions. The rate of change has escalated as products
adopt automated update practices. Products evolve much more rapidly than a
few years past. To stay safe during rapid change, computer users must have a
firm grasp of what they are protecting themselves against, how the protections
work, and why they need to protect themselves.
The book is divided into three sections. The first section explains how
computing has developed, how cybercrime has become a serious problem,
and the extent of its severity. The second section examines what government
and industry have done to respond. The third section relies heavily on the
previous two sections and focuses on what you can do to protect yourself and
what to do when you become a victim. Throughout, I have tried to maintain
focus on what is wrong, why it is wrong, and how the response works so that
a user can apply the advice to any computer they work with.
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Author(s): Marvin Waschke (auth.)
Publisher: Apress, Year: 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4842-2429-8