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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

Data sources

The primary source for the data in this chapter is the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (Microsoft Corporation, n.d.). During my time working with the researchers and analysts in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), I was the executive editor and a contributor to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, which we called "the SIR." During the 8 or 9 years I helped produce the SIR, we published more than 20 volumes and special editions of this report, spanning thousands of pages. I gave literally thousands of threat intelligence briefings for customers around the world, as well as press and analyst interviews. I have read, re-read, and re-re-read every page of these reports—I know the ins and outs of this data very well.

The data in these reports comes from Microsoft's anti-malware products, including the Malicious Software Removal Tool, Microsoft Safety Scanner, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft System Center Endpoint...