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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

Understanding the difference between the attacker's motivations and tactics

One of the reasons I've found so many organizations lack focus and competency around the cybersecurity fundamentals is the way big data breaches have been reported in the news over the last decade. Stories that claim an attack was the "most advanced attack seen to date" or the work of "a nation state" seem to be common. But when you take a closer look at these attacks, the victim organization was always initially compromised by attackers using one or more of the five ways I outlined in this chapter.

There are attackers that operate in the open because they don't believe there are consequences for their illicit activities, based on their location and legal jurisdiction. But this is the exception to the rule that they will obfuscate their true personal identities. Claims that an attack was the work of a nation state or an APT group are typically based on circumstantial...