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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

Virtual private network (VPN)

When securing your endpoints, a VPN is necessary when you are away from the office or traveling, unless your company has a software-defined perimeter (SDP). I cover SDPs and Zero Trust in Chapter 11. Your company may have a VPN set up if they have an on-premise data center. Typically, you will connect to the company VPN in order to get access to the on-premise servers and applications. As more and more companies move to cloud-first postures, your company may not have one set up. If your company is cloud-first, then every service it uses is a SaaS. Your employees log in to M365 or Google Workspace, for example. The remote session is already being encrypted with TLS 1.2 or above. As more companies move to this posture, they may not have a VPN that you connect to. A VPN is not obsolete. When you are out and about away from your home Wi-Fi or company network, connecting to guest Wi-Fi, then you need to use a VPN. Be suspicious of any free VPN except for Proton...

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