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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

Global Windows malware infection analysis

I have aggregated data from over 20 volumes and special editions of the SIR to provide a view of how the threat landscape has evolved over time. The first measure we'll look at is the worldwide average CCM. This is the number of systems that the MSRT found to be infected with malware for every 1,000 systems it scanned around the world. Figure 3.1 includes all the time periods that Microsoft published CCM data for in the SIR, each quarter between the third quarter of 2008 and the second quarter of 2016:

Figure 3.1: Worldwide average malware infection rate (CCM) 2008–2016 (Microsoft Corporation, n.d.)

The horizontal axis illustrates the time periods represented by the quarter and year. For example, 3Q08 is shorthand for the third quarter of 2008, while 4Q13 is the fourth quarter of 2013. The vertical axis represents the worldwide CCM for each time period. For example, in the 1st quarter of 2009 (1Q09), the worldwide...