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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

Regional Windows malware infection analysis

I started studying regional malware infection rates back in 2007. At first, I studied a relatively small group of countries, probably six or seven. But over time, our work in the SIR was expanded to provide malware CCM and ER data for all countries (over 100) where there was enough data to report statistically significant findings. Over the years, three loosely coupled groups of locations emerged from the data:

  1. Locations that consistently had malware infection rates (CCMs) lower than the worldwide average.
  2. Locations that typically had malware infection rates consistent with the worldwide average.
  3. Locations that consistently had malware infection rates much higher than the worldwide average.

Figure 3.3 illustrates some of the locations with the highest and lowest ERs in the world between 2015 and 2018. The dotted line represents the worldwide average ER so that you can see how much the other locations listed...