Next-Gen Cybersecurity: Defending the Digital Frontier

This book explores how the threat environment is rapidly shifting as well as what strategies are necessary to secure modern digital ecosystems. This book evaluates the economies of cybercrime, activities of the nation-state, ransomware, supply-chain hacks, and zero-day exploits, and how they affect businesses and society. It introduces next-generation security foundation based on Zero Trust, identity governance, secure architecture and resilient infrastructure design. The article discusses smart defense, AI-based detection, SOAR, API and software supply-chain security, and DevSecOps. Human and organizational resilience is a specialized area that deals with security culture, insider risk, governance, compliance, and incident response. The last chapters provide a glimpse into the future of quantum computing, convergence of cyber and physical, transformation of the workforce, and global cyber policy. The book offers a viable roadmap to guide leaders and practitioners to develop adaptive and future-ready cybersecurity programs.