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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

Using vulnerability management data

For organizations that are just bootstrapping a cybersecurity program or for CISOs that have assumed leadership of a program that has been struggling to get traction in their organization, vulnerability management data can be a powerful tool. Even for well-established cybersecurity programs, vulnerability management data can help illustrate how the security team has been effectively managing risk for their organization and improving over time. Despite this, surprisingly, I've met some CISOs of large, well-established enterprises who do not aggregate and analyze, or otherwise use data from their vulnerability management programs. This surprises me when I come across it. This is because this data represents one of the most straightforward and easy ways available for CISOs to communicate the effectiveness of their cybersecurity programs.

A challenge for CISOs and IT executives is to develop a performance overview based...