Understanding Cybersecurity Technologies

A Guide to Selecting the Right Cybersecurity Tools

Abbas Moallem

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781032157849
  9780367457457
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000506174
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Cryptography
• Index: Computer Science

Cyberattacks on enterprises, government institutions, and individuals are exponentially growing. At the same time, the number of companies, both small and large, offering all types of solutions has been increasing too. Since companies rely on technological solutions to protect themselves against cyberattacks, understanding and selecting the right solutions among those offered presents a significant challenge for professionals, company executives, and newcomers to the cybersecurity field.

FEATURES

• Presents descriptions for each type of cybersecurity technology and their specifications
• Explains applications, usages, and offers case studies to enhance comprehension
• Offers an easy-to-understand classification of existing cybersecurity technologies
• Provides an understanding of the technologies without getting lost in technical details
• Focuses on existing technologies used in different solutions, without focusing on the companies that offer these technologies

This book is intended to help all professionals new to cybersecurity, students, and experts to learn or educate their audiences on the foundations of the available solutions.

1Cybersecurity Technologies Classification

DOI: 10.1201/9781003038429-1

1.1Introduction

Cybersecurity is a growing field of science composed of very diverse types of technologies used to protect systems from different kinds of attacks, some known and some unknown. Due to the complexity of the evolving aspects of these areas, there is no standard classification of protective technologies. The classification of cyber technologies helps to better understand how these technologies work. In this chapter, after a look at some of the different available classification, I will provide the way I have classified the protective cyber technologies reviewed in this book.

1.2Different Categories of Cyber Technologies

There are different classifications of technologies in cybersecurity. From a research point of view, the cybersecurity topics are categorized as follows [1]:

1. Applied cybersecurity
2. Cybersecurity data science
3. Cybersecurity education and training
4. Cybersecurity incidents
5. Cybersecurity management and policy
6. Cybersecurity technology
7. Human and social cybersecurity
8. Theories in cybersecurity

From a practical point of view, one type of classification is commonly based on the kind of threats and their intended effects. In this category, threats are classified into two groups [2]:

1. Attack techniques
2. Threat impacts

Another type of classification is based on the type of cyber protection. The protective technologies can then be classified into four groups:

1. Architecture system
2. Detection type
3. Ecosystem
4. Data type

Cybersecurity technologies can also be classified based on components that each technology is supposed to protect. This classification includes the following main groups:

1. Network
2. Application
3. Endpoint
4. Data
5. Identity
6. Database
7. Infrastructure
8. Mobile
9. Cloud
10. Backup

Another type of classification is based on security solution types. The solution-based classification is a more empirical way to classify cyber technologies. In this classification, the solutions are classified in the following groups:

1. Identity and Access Management
2. Risk and Compliance Management
3. Encryption
4. Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
5. Unified Threat Management (UTM)
6. Firewall
7. Antivirus/Antimalware Solutions
8. Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
9. Disaster Recovery
10. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Mitigation
11. Web filtering

1.3Technology Classification

For this book, I have used classifications based on existing technological solutions. They are grouped into 16 main categories. In each chapter, I offer the tree view of the technologies under each leading group. The classification in this book includes the following groups (Figure 1.1):

FIGURE 1.1 Cybersecurity technology classification based on existing technological solutions.

1. Encryption
2. Authentication
3. Biometrics
4. Firewall
5. Endpoint Protection
6. Phishing Detection
7. Virus Detection (more commonly put together in a single group with the Endpoint Protection category)
8. Malware Protection
9. Internet of Things
10. Network Security
11. Location Tracking
12. Surveillance
13. Insider Threat
14. Intrusion Detection
15. Vulnerability Scanning
16. Penetration Testing

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Author
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1 Cybersecurity Technologies Classification
• Chapter 2 Encryption
• Chapter 3 Authentication
• Chapter 4 Biometrics
• Chapter 5 Firewall Technologies
• Chapter 6 Virus Detection
• Chapter 7 Phishing Detection
• Chapter 8 Endpoint Protection
• Chapter 9 Malware Protection Technology
• Chapter 10 The Internet of Things (IoT)
• Chapter 11 Network Security
• Chapter 12 Location Tracking
• Chapter 13 Surveillance
• Chapter 14 Insider Threat Protection
• Chapter 15 Intrusion Detection
• Chapter 16 Vulnerability Scanning
• Chapter 17 Penetration Testing
• Chapter 18 Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Index