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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

Encryption and key management

You might be wondering why I left this topic until the very last section of this book. In my experience, most conversations about security in the cloud end with encryption and key management. No matter what topics the conversation starts with, such as vulnerabilities, exploits, malware, or internet-based threats, they end by discussing encryption and key management. This is because encryption is a powerful data protection control that helps provide confidentiality and integrity for data.

No matter which cybersecurity strategy or combination of strategies organizations pursue, when the rubber hits the road, protecting the data is the objective. That's what can be so distracting about the cybersecurity strategies we examined that are proxies for data protection. Security teams get so focused on protecting endpoints or applications that they lose sight that the underlying objective is to protect data. The proxies I mentioned are important and must...