Investigating the Cyber Breach

Joseph Muniz is an architect at Cisco Systems and a security researcher. He has extensive experience in designing security solutions and architectures for the top Fortune 500 corporations and the U.S. government. Joseph’s current role gives him visibility into the latest trends in cybersecurity, from both leading vendors and customers. Examples of Joseph’s research include his RSA talk titled “Social Media Deception,” which has been quoted by many sources (search for “Emily Williams Social Engineering”), as well as his articles in PenTest Magazine regarding various security topics. Joseph runs The Security Blogger website, a popular resource for security, hacking, and product implementation. He is the author and contributor of several publications covering various penetration testing, certification, and security topics. You can follow Joseph at thesecurityblogger.com and @SecureBlogger.

Breach detection is one of the hottest topics in cyber security. As more devices become Internet capable, more systems become targets. This in turn increases the need for digital defenses meaning the intended audience will continue to grow and expand across all business sectors. This book is a guide for various levels of technical competencies. Business minded people and executives would benefit from the incident response and policy content. Network administrators will benefit from the breach detection best practices content. Security experts will benefit from the technical forensics tools and exercises. Unlike the very few books on this topic, this book will be developed as a guide that can be easily applied to any organization's business practice.

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