Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance: Identify vulnerabilities and secure your financial services from security breaches

Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance: Identify vulnerabilities and secure your financial services from security breaches

English | 2019 | ISBN: 978-1788836296 | 308 Pages | PDF, EPUB | 57 MB

A comprehensive guide that will give you hands-on experience to study and overcome financial cyber threats
Organizations have always been a target of cybercrime. Hands-On Cybersecurity for Finance teaches you how to successfully defend your system against common cyber threats, making sure your financial services are a step ahead in terms of security.
The book begins by providing an overall description of cybersecurity, guiding you through some of the most important services and technologies currently at risk from cyber threats. Once you have familiarized yourself with the topic, you will explore specific technologies and threats based on case studies and real-life scenarios. As you progress through the chapters, you will discover vulnerabilities and bugs (including the human risk factor), gaining an expert-level view of the most recent threats. You’ll then explore information on how you can achieve data and infrastructure protection. In the concluding chapters, you will cover recent and significant updates to procedures and configurations, accompanied by important details related to cybersecurity research and development in IT-based financial services.
By the end of the book, you will have gained a basic understanding of the future of information security and will be able to protect financial services and their related infrastructures.
What you will learn

  • Understand the cyber threats faced by organizations
  • Discover how to identify attackers
  • Perform vulnerability assessment, software testing, and pentesting
  • Defend your financial cyberspace using mitigation techniques and remediation plans
  • Implement encryption and decryption
  • Understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI) affects cybersecurity
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