Chapter 2. Common Security Threats

This chapter covers the current state of network security in terms of the types of threats organizations face on behalf of malicious actors. It covers the following topics:

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

Social engineering

Malware identification tools

Data loss and exfiltration

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