Cybersecurity Essentials

Cybersecurity Essentials is organized into four parts that cover the four distinct challenges of creating an effective cybersecurity defense: securing the infrastructure, securing devices, securing local networks, and securing the perimeter. Each part begins with a chapter summarizing the fundamental concepts of that challenge, including real-world scenarios that show readers how these vulnerabilities look in everyday computing. Each part concludes with a chapter that provides a summary of the key concepts, review questions that help readers assess their understanding of key concepts, and hands-on exercises (which circle back to the scenarios they were presented in the summary chapter at the outset of the part) that empower readers to use their new skills. Cybersecurity Essentials covers:

• Infrastructure Security Fundamentals
• Basic Security and Surveillance Systems
• Intrusion Detection and Reporting Systems
• Local Host Security
• Securing Devices
• Protecting the Inner Perimeter
• Protecting Remote Access
• Local Network Security
• Network Topologies and Protocols
• Network Control Strategies
• Network Servers and Connectivity Devices
• Network Transmission Security and Hardening
• Hiding Private Networks
• Protecting Data Moving Through the Internet
• Identifying and Defending Against Vulnerabilities

Charles J. Brooks?is co-owner and vice president of Educational Technologies Group Inc., as well as co-owner of eITPrep LLP, an online training company. A former electronics instructor and technical writer with the National Education Corporation, Charles taught and wrote on post-secondary fields including introductory electronics, transistor theory, linear integrated circuits, basic digital theory, and industrial electronics. Charles has authored several books, including seven editions of A+ Certification Training Guide and many other topics.?

Philip Craig?is the founder of BlackByte Cyber Security, LLC, a consultancy supporting the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) research and national security agendas as well as the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative. For many years, Phil served as a Sr. Cyber Security Research Scientist at PNNL, where he provided engineering and program management support in the fields of cyber security, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technologies, computing and communications infrastructure. This included development of complex system and policy solutions in a variety of critical infrastructures including the nuclear power, electric power, and water sectors.? Developed and deployed both strategic and tactical cyber security defensive solutions for the electric power and nuclear sectors.

Donald Short?is the President of One World Telecommunications, Inc., an Internet Service Provider in Kennewick. Don has been has been both a pharmacist and computer scientist for over 35 years working in many programming languages on a variety of network architectures and has developed large and complex online content and learning management systems.?