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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

This chapter required a lot of research. I tried to provide you with a unique long-term view of the threat landscape and some useful context. I'll try to summarize the key take-aways from this chapter.

Malware uses the cybersecurity usual suspects to initially compromise systems; these include unpatched vulnerabilities, security misconfigurations, weak, leaked, and stolen passwords, insider threat, and social engineering. Of these, social engineering is attackers' favorite tactic, as evidenced by the consistently high prevalence of malware categories that leverage it. Malware can also be employed after the initial compromise to further attackers' objectives.

Some successful malware families impact systems around the world quickly after release, while others start as regional threats before growing into global threats. Some threats stay localized to a region because they rely on a specific non-English language to trick users into installing them...