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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

Chapter summary

CISOs and security teams have numerous cybersecurity strategies, models, frameworks, and standards to choose from when developing their approach to protecting, detecting, and responding to modern-day threats. One Attack-Centric Strategy that we examined in Chapter 5, Cybersecurity Strategies, the Intrusion Kill Chain, deserves serious consideration as it garnered the highest CFSS estimated total score. It earned nearly a perfect score with 95 points out of a possible 100. This chapter sought to provide you with an example of one way this model can be implemented.

The Intrusion Kill Chain model was pioneered by Lockheed Martin; the Kill Chain phases provided in Lockheed Martin's paper on this topic include Reconnaissance, Weaponization, Delivery, Exploitation, Installation, Command and Control (C2), and Actions on Objectives (Eric M. Hutchins, Michael J. Cloppert, Rohan M. Amin, Ph.D.). One consideration before implementing this framework is whether defenders...