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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

Cybersecurity teams need to measure many different things for a range purposes including complying with regulatory, industry, and internal standards. However, this chapter focused on how CISOs and cybersecurity teams can measure the performance and efficacy of the implementation of their cybersecurity strategy, using an Attack-Centric Strategy as an example.

Data helps CISOs manage their cybersecurity programs and investments and helps them prove that their cybersecurity program has been effective and constantly improving; it can also help illustrate the effectiveness of corrective actions after issues are detected. A well-run vulnerability management program is not optional; leveraging data from it represents one of the easiest ways for CISOs to communicate effectiveness and progress. Vulnerability management teams should scan everything in their inventories every single day for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This helps minimize the amount of time that...