Fighting Phishing: Everything You Can Do to Fight Social Engineering and Phishing by Roger A. Grimes.
Roger holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from Old Dominion University. A former Principal Security Architect at Microsoft, Roger was a computer security columnist at InfoWorld. Today Roger is a Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4.
This book is not only mandatory reading for every IT organization’s team, but even individuals must learn to protect their personal accounts and valuable data safe sophisticated social engineering and phishing attacks.
This book is well regarded within the cybersecurity community. This is a practical guide to understanding and defending against phishing attacks. Roger is in fact, outlining how an in-depth approach is required, now more than ever, to deploy a robust defense against social engineering and phishing threats.
Anyone can acquire the understanding of how critical defenses must be in place today. So, just search for ‘phishing attack’ to clearly understand how organizations still fall victim to these attacks which continue to be the entry into organizational networks and systems.
Modern attacks begin with old tactics
Roger is able to address a comprehensive view with a focus on required policies, education, and IT deployment strategies for organizations. The benefit for organizations: Adding this book will make your cybersecurity defense in depth model better. Yes, today phishing is impacting everyone so please be kind and assist family and friends. Everyone must learn and understand how to protect their personal devices and email accounts on their smartphones and computers.
In conclusion, and to his credit, Roger is communicating clear instructions for organizations to deploy a necessary defense-in-depth strategy. This is no longer the Nigerian Prince email scam that as of 2019 still raked in over $700,000. So in effect, Roger is also addressing broader cybersecurity practices. Hard truth lessons.