CompTIA +701: Understanding Cybersecurity Threat Actors

di AS Snipes (Autore)

Adil Ahmed, 2025

This comprehensive guide explores the landscape of modern cybersecurity threats, focusing on the various types of threat actors, their motivations, capabilities, and methods of attack. It covers unskilled attackers, hacktivists, organized cybercriminals, nation-state actors, insider threats, and the challenges posed by shadow IT. Readers will gain a clear understanding of how threat vectors and attack surfaces provide entry points for cyberattacks, including messages, files, images, voice calls, removable devices, and unsecured networks. The guide also highlights proactive strategies to outsmart threat actors, emphasizing the use of deception and disruption technologies such as honeypots, honeynets, honeyfiles, and honeytokens. By combining knowledge of threat actors with effective defensive measures, organizations can better anticipate attacks, reduce vulnerabilities, and strengthen their cybersecurity posture. This resource serves as a foundation for building resilience, protecting sensitive data, and maintaining security in an increasingly complex digital environment.

• Autore: AS Snipes
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Adil Ahmed
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233501838