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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

How is cloud computing different?

Among Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) such as IBM, Oracle, Alibaba and others, the three most popular CSPs in the world are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google. These CSPs are often referred to as hyperscale CSPs because their cloud offerings are available all over the globe.

When organizations first contemplate leveraging services offered by CSPs, the first topics some of them want to explore are security and compliance. They need to understand how CSPs can provide the IT capabilities they need, while meeting or exceeding industry security standards, regulated standards and their own internal security standards. I've heard a lot of myths about cloud computing and I've seen the cloud help organizations achieve things they couldn't possibly achieve in their own on-premises IT environments. I'll share some of the things I've learned about the cloud in this chapter, but please note that all the views and opinions...