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Published inApr 2024
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Rajneesh Gupta
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Rajneesh Gupta

Rajneesh Gupta is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 11 years of industry experience. With a remarkable career focused on incident response, penetration testing, security compliance, and risk management, Rajneesh has established himself as a leading expert in the field. He is also an accomplished author, having penned the book "Hands-on with Blockchain and Cybersecurity." As a dedicated educator, Rajneesh has made a significant impact on the cybersecurity community by training over 60,000 students globally.
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NIST 800-53

Over 30,000 cyber security incidents were reported to federal agencies in the United States in the fiscal year 2022-23 – a five percent reduction from the year before (http://tinyurl.com/2s3msja8). All federal agencies need to be compliant with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). FISMA is a federal law that requires US government agencies to create, document, and implement an information security and protection program. NIST 800-53 is a cybersecurity standard and guidelines that help federal agencies meet the requirements set by FISMA. The NIST 800-53 framework is developed by the National Institute of Standards in Technology. To summarize, the NIST 800-53 framework helps federal agencies to become FISMA compliant. In this section, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is the NIST 800-53 framework?
  • List of control families in the NIST 800-53 framework
  • Vulnerability detection use case

What is the NIST 800-53 framework...

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Security Monitoring with Wazuh
Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837632152

Author (1)

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Rajneesh Gupta

Rajneesh Gupta is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over 11 years of industry experience. With a remarkable career focused on incident response, penetration testing, security compliance, and risk management, Rajneesh has established himself as a leading expert in the field. He is also an accomplished author, having penned the book "Hands-on with Blockchain and Cybersecurity." As a dedicated educator, Rajneesh has made a significant impact on the cybersecurity community by training over 60,000 students globally.
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