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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

Conclusion

That's one way to implement the Intrusion Kill Chain framework. Obviously, there are other possible interpretations and approaches to implementing this model. I've seen some very well thought out and sophisticated approaches to this framework at conferences and documented on the internet, but the best way is the one that addresses the specific HVAs and risks that your organization is concerned about.

Remember that "best practices" are based on the threats and assets that someone else has in mind, not necessarily yours.

This might be obvious, but the Intrusion Kill Chain framework can help CISOs and security teams take a structured approach to managing intrusions. Arguably, intrusions are the most serious threats for most organizations because of their potential impact, but there are other threats that CISOs need to address. DDoS attacks, for example, typically don't involve intrusion attempts or require a Kill Chain framework to address...