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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

Modernizing the kill chain

One consideration before implementing this framework is whether defenders should use the original Intrusion Kill Chain framework or update it. There are several ways this framework can be modernized. I'll give you some ideas on how this can be done in this section. However, don't be afraid to embrace the notion of iterative improvement based on your organizations' experiences with this framework or others.

Mapping the cybersecurity usual suspects

In Chapter 1, Ingredients for a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy, I introduced the cybersecurity usual suspects and have referred to them throughout this book. I hope I have imparted the importance of mitigating the five ways that organizations are initially compromised. The Intrusion Kill Chain framework can be modified or reorganized around the cybersecurity usual suspects to ensure that they are mitigated and make it easier to identify gaps in an organization's security posture. This...