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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

This chapter introduced some of the security and compliance benefits of cloud computing. I focused my discussion on the world's most popular CSPs' basic capabilities, that is, of Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft.

The physical infrastructure model that hyperscale CSPs have roughly coalesced around is based on the concept of regions and availability zones. This concept is that an availability zone is a cluster of datacenters and a region is a cluster of availability zones. There are meaningful differences in the size and scope of CSPs' infrastructures and how they leverage components of this model. Although the terms IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS are still in widespread use today, they are slowly becoming obsolete. Newer services that solve specific problems can blur the lines between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service models, making them less important.

CSPs are different from traditional Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in some key ways. It is important...