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Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset: Build a Strategic Security Programme to Counteract Threats
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Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset
Strengthen your cybersecurity strategy by thinking like an attacker and anticipating threats before they strike.
Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset by leading cybersecurity expert and best-selling author Sarah Armstrong-Smith is a strategic guide for leaders who need to understand the people, motives and methods behind modern cyber attacks.
This fully revised second edition helps leaders navigate a threat landscape reshaped by AI, organized crime, cyber-enabled fraud and transnational attack models. New chapters explore AI-accelerated threats, sextortion, human trafficking and the criminal ecosystems that sustain cybercrime - revealing how attackers adapt, collaborate and profit.
Drawing on real-world examples including SolarWinds, Scattered Spider, North Korean IT worker schemes and South-East Asian fraud compounds, this book connects the headlines to the human, operational and economic forces behind them. The result is a practical and strategic lens for understanding the human drivers of attacker behaviour, reducing exposure and strengthening organizational resilience.
You will learn how to:
- Think like an attacker and analyse their behaviour
- Recognise the warning signs of fast-moving threat models
- Anticipate AI-driven attacks and evolving cybercrime tactics
- Address advanced human risk at leadership level
- Strengthen executive crisis readiness
- Build security cultures grounded in trust, accountability and psychological safety
For CISOs, CIOs, CTOs and business leaders across cybersecurity, resilience, fraud, risk and crisis management, this book offers a clear, compelling and human-centred approach to making better security decisions, strengthening resilience and defending against increasingly sophisticated threats.
Themes include: cybersecurity strategy, attacker mindset, cyber threat intelligence, AI in cybersecurity, insider threat management, cyber risk governance, social engineering, psychological and cognitive warfare.
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Details
- Publisher
- Kogan Page
- Author
- Sarah Armstrong-Smith
- Format
- Paperback
- Release date
- Mar 30, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781398630178
- ISBN-10
- 1398630179
- Pages
- 304
- Carton quantity
- 20 copies
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| 1,000+ | $30.09 | 30% off list |
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