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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

Introduction

The emergence of commercial cloud computing in 2006 led to a lot of debate among some organizations as to whether the cloud could be trusted, as well as whether it is as secure as on-premises IT environments. However, for many organizations, the cloud represents much more than new technology. Simply put, the cloud represents change. Let's face it, change is easy for some organizations, like startups, while it can be more difficult for large, well-established and highly regulated organizations, such as financial services institutions or some verticals in the public sector.

Very often, it's the CISO in these organizations who is change averse, operating as if the ideal outcome is a stalemate with attackers, in IT environments where CISOs have some control over change. As long as nothing changes, they can maintain this state of relative success and continue to improve. However, of course, things are constantly changing; it just takes time for us busy humans...