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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

Chapter summary

I covered a lot of ground in this chapter. But the context I provided here will be helpful for readers throughout the rest of this book. In this chapter, I introduced the cybersecurity fundamentals, the cybersecurity usual suspects, High Value Assets (HVAs), and other concepts, that I will relentlessly refer to throughout the rest of this book.

What is a cybersecurity strategy? There are at least two critical inputs to a cybersecurity strategy: your organization's HVAs, and the specific requirements, threats, and risks that apply to your organization, informed by the industry you are in, the place(s) in the world where you do business, and the people associated with the organization. If an HVA's confidentiality, integrity, or availability is compromised, the organization will fail or be severely disrupted. Therefore, identifying HVAs and prioritizing protection, detection, and response for them is critical. This does not give security teams permission...