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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 cybersecurity strategies in the cloud

In Chapter 5, Cybersecurity Strategies, we examined several cybersecurity strategies that I have seen employed in the industry over the past two decades. We evaluated these strategies using the Cybersecurity Fundamentals Scoring System (CFSS). The CFSS score estimate for each strategy helps us understand how well they address the cybersecurity fundamentals. To refresh your memory, a summary of the CFSS scores for each strategy is provided in Table 8.1:

Table 8.1: CFSS score estimate summary

Almost any of these strategies can be used in the cloud. Let's now look at a few of these strategies in the context of the cloud.

Using the protect and recover strategy in the cloud

CSPs offer granular firewall and network controls that can help organizations adopt and operate the Protect and Recover Strategy. The power of APIs and automation in the cloud enable Network teams and Security teams to provision and operate Web...