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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

Implementing this strategy

By the end of the mapping process, CISOs and security teams should have a much better inventory of the cybersecurity capabilities and controls that have been deployed, as well as how the data from these are being consumed by the organization. This is a great starting point for implementing the Intrusion Kill Chain framework. However, do not underestimate how challenging it can be for organizations with large, complex IT environments to accomplish this.

For some organizations, it will be easier to divide mapping work into smaller, more achievable projects focused on parts of their environment, than trying to map their entire environment. Moving forward with this strategy without an accurate, current mapping can easily lead to over-investments, under-investments, and gaps in security capabilities. Although these can be corrected over time, it will likely make it more expensive and time-consuming that it needs to be.

Table 6.5: An example of a...