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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies

By : Tim Rains
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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies

By: Tim Rains

Overview of this book

After scrutinizing numerous cybersecurity strategies, Microsoft’s former Global Chief Security Advisor in this book helps you understand the efficacy of popular cybersecurity strategies and more. Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies offers an unprecedented long-term view of the global threat landscape by examining the twenty-year trend in vulnerability disclosures and exploitation, nearly a decade of regional differences in malware infections, the socio-economic factors that underpin them, and how global malware has evolved. This will give you further perspectives into malware protection for your organization. It also examines internet-based threats that CISOs should be aware of. The book will provide you with an evaluation of the various cybersecurity strategies that have ultimately failed over the past twenty years, along with one or two that have actually worked. It will help executives and security and compliance professionals understand how cloud computing is a game changer for them. By the end of this book, you will know how to measure the effectiveness of your organization’s cybersecurity strategy and the efficacy of the vendors you employ to help you protect your organization and yourself.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

Ingredients for a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy

There's no doubt that enterprises today, more than ever, need effective cybersecurity strategies. However a sound strategy is not in and of itself a guarantee of success. There are several ingredients that are necessary for a cybersecurity program to be successful. This chapter will describe what a cybersecurity strategy looks like and each of the necessary ingredients for success in detail.

Throughout this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Defining the term cybersecurity strategy
  • Common ways organizations become compromised, and how the mitigation of these are fundamental to effective cybersecurity
  • Understanding the difference between an attacker's motivation and their tactics
  • Additional guidance on formulating a successful cybersecurity strategy

Let's begin with a fundamental question that we'll need to answer before discussing cybersecurity strategy...