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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

Cybersecurity Strategies

Every enterprise should have a cybersecurity strategy and the CISO of each of these organizations should be able to articulate it. Whether your organization has a strategy or not, I hope this chapter provokes some thought and provides some tools that are helpful.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • A sampling of cybersecurity strategies that have been employed over the past two decades, including:
    • The Protect and Recover Strategy
    • The Endpoint Protection Strategy
    • The Physical Control and Security Clearances Strategy
    • Compliance as a Security Strategy
    • The Application-Centric Strategy
    • The Identity-Centric Strategy
    • The Data-Centric Strategy
    • Attack-Centric Strategies
  • A look at DevOps
  • A brief introduction to Zero Trust

Let's begin by discussing which strategy is the right strategy for your organization.

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