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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

Internet-Based Threats

Over the past 25 years, attackers have learned to leverage the internet to compromise the IT environments of their victims, achieve their illicit objectives and satisfy their motivations. CISOs and Security teams can inform their cybersecurity strategies by studying how attackers use the internet. In this chapter, we'll look at some of the ways attackers have been using the internet and how these methods have evolved over time.

In this chapter, we'll look at the following topics:

  • Phishing attacks
  • Drive-by download attacks
  • Malware hosting sites

Let's get started by looking at the anatomy of a typical attack pattern.