Cybersecurity for 2025

<p>Cybersecurity for 2025: Principles Practice and Preemptive Strategy is your no-nonsense guide to surviving-and thriving-in tomorrow's digital battlefield.</p><p>This book packs five tight parts into one actionable read. Part 1 nails the 2025 threat scene: nation-states ransomware-as-a-service AI deepfakes and the new preemptive mindset that beats detect-and-respond. You get NIST CSF 2.0's fresh Govern function Parkerian Hexad Saltzer-Schroeder principles and STRIDE threat modeling. Part 2 dives into attack vectors-TCP/IP hijacks buffer overflows XSS SSRF side-channels and browser data leaks. Part 3 flips to Blue Team ops: SOC workflows IR playbooks forensics SIEM labs with Splunk and Zero Trust pillars. Part 4 arms the Red Team: MITRE ATT&CK nmap Nessus Metasploit and ethical lotL tactics. Part 5 tackles the frontier-cloud shared responsibility IoT botnets OT convergence AI malware model poisoning plus GRC policy writing and a picoCTF capstone. Every chapter ends with a hands-on lab tabletop or code exercise you can run today.</p><p>What sets this book apart is ruthless 2025 focus and zero fluff. Other texts rehash 2015 exploits or bury you in theory; this one cites ENISA 2025 CrowdStrike 2025 Gartner preemptive forecasts and Cloudflare's live PQC rollout. You won't find recycled OWASP Top 10 lists-you'll build IAM policies in AWS JSON craft iptables rules debug stack-smashing in GDB and write Splunk alerts that trigger in real time. Labs use free tools: Kali Metasploitable Nessus Essentials Splunk trial Wireshark OpenSSL Shodan. The capstone sends you to picoCTF to prove you can pivot from crypto to forensics to rev-eng under pressure. No other single volume ties academic rigor (MIT Stanford CMU syllabi) to street-ready skills while prepping you for the quantum cliff and AI arms race.</p><p>© 2025 Azhar ul Haque Sario. This work is not affiliated with endorsed by or sponsored by MIT Stanford Carnegie Mellon NIST ENISA CrowdStrike Gartner Cloudflare Splunk Tenable or any cited entity. All trademarks are used under nominative fair use for identification and educational purposes only.</p>