Data Engineering for Cybersecurity

Learn beginner-friendly strategies and free tools for streamlining your organization''s data processes to support and strengthen cybersecurity. When a cyber security incident occurs, how does anyone know? Data must leave workstations and servers, bounce across the network, and land in a central database before analysts can use it. This project-based book covers that complex space between an organization’s computers and the security analyst tasked with protecting them. The guidance is straightforward, and the focus is on streamlining the process of gathering, transforming, and storing cybersecurity data using free and open-source tools. The author elaborates on core but often overlooked logging strategies, while also emphasizing the importance of standardizing data, using encryption to protect transmitted data, and creating “data pipelines” that support cybersecurity, data analytics, and automation needs alike. You’ll how to: By the end, you’ll know how to enrich your security data, protect it from unauthorized parties, and automate your workflow in the process – leaving more room for creative thinking.

Product details

• Authors: James Bonifield
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 22.07.2025
• EAN: 9781718504028
• ISBN: 978-1-71850-402-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Data Mining, computer science, Forensic Science, Network Security, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Analytics, COMPUTERS / Security / Network Security, Data capture and analysis, Data Capture & Analysis, COMPUTERS / Forensics