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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

Other ingredients for a successful strategy

There is a bunch of management-related work that needs to be done to ensure the CISO, the security team, and the rest of the organization can effectively execute a cybersecurity strategy. This section outlines some of the ingredients that give a strategy the best chance of success.

CISOs that tell the businesses they support, "No, you can't do that," are no longer in high demand. Security teams must align with their organizations' business objectives, or they won't be successful.

Business objective alignment

I've met many CISOs that were struggling in their roles. Some of them simply weren't properly supported by their organizations. It's easy to find groups of executives that think cybersecurity threats are overblown and everything their CISO does is a tax on what they are trying to accomplish. To these folks, cybersecurity is just another initiative that should stand in line behind them...