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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

Why is there so much malware on Windows compared to other platforms?

There are certainly more mobile internet-connected devices today than there are Windows-based systems. Mobile device adoption exploded as Apple, Google, Samsung, and others brought very popular products to the global marketplace. But if there are far more mobile devices, shouldn't there be far more families of malware developed for those platforms?

The answer to this question lies in how applications get distributed in these ecosystems. Apple's App Store was a game-changer for the industry. Not only did it make it easy for iPhone users to find and install applications, but it almost completely eliminated malware for iOS-based devices.

Apple was able to accomplish this by making the App Store the one and only place consumers could install applications from (jailbreaking aside). Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who want to get their apps onto consumers' iOS-based devices, such as iPhones...