Chapter 2: Attacks, Concepts and Techniques
This chapter covers the ways that cybersecurity professionals analyze what has happened after a cyberattack. It explains security software and hardware vulnerabilities and the different categories of security vulnerabilities.
The different types of malicious software (known as malware) and the symptoms of malware are discussed. The different ways that attackers can infiltrate a system is covered, as well as denial of service attacks.
Most modern cyberattacks are considered to be blended attacks. Blended attacks use multiple techniques to infiltrate and attack a system. When an attack cannot be prevented, it is the job of a cybersecurity professional to reduce the impact of that attack.
