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A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience

You're reading from  A CISO Guide to Cyber Resilience

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835466926
Pages 238 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Debra Baker Debra Baker
Profile icon Debra Baker

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Attack on BigCo
2. Chapter 1: The Attack on BigCo 3. Part 2: Security Resilience: Getting the Basics Down
4. Chapter 2: Identity and Access Management 5. Chapter 3: Security Policies 6. Chapter 4: Security and Risk Management 7. Chapter 5: Securing Your Endpoints 8. Chapter 6: Data Safeguarding 9. Chapter 7: Security Awareness Culture 10. Chapter 8: Vulnerability Management 11. Chapter 9: Asset Inventory 12. Chapter 10: Data Protection 13. Part 3: Security Resilience: Taking Your Security Program to the Next Level
14. Chapter 11: Taking Your Endpoint Security to the Next Level 15. Chapter 12: Secure Configuration Baseline 16. Chapter 13: Classify Your Data and Assets 17. Chapter 14: Cyber Resilience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cryptographic hashing

While we are talking about hashing, I wanted to explain what it is and why you want to use it. Ensure your company is using SHA-256 or above. SHA-1 has been deprecated due to a SHA-1 collision. A SHA-1 collision occurs when two distinct pieces of data hash to the same message digest. If an attacker can craft a collision, they can use it to create two different files that share the same SHA-1 hash value1.

Although SHA-1 has been deprecated, hmac-sha-1 is still okay to use since it is a secret keyed hash value. What a hashing algorithm provides is integrity. It doesn’t actually encrypt the data, so you can’t read them. Hashing runs a mathematical function on the document that essentially fingerprints it. If anything in the document changes...

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