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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies - Second Edition

By : Tim Rains
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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies - Second Edition

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By: Tim Rains

Overview of this book

Tim Rains is Microsoft's former Global Chief Security Advisor and Amazon Web Services’ former Global Security Leader for Worldwide Public Sector. He has spent the last two decades advising private and public sector organizations all over the world on cybersecurity strategies. Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies, Second Edition builds upon the success of the first edition that has helped so many aspiring CISOs, and cybersecurity professionals understand and develop effective data-driven cybersecurity strategies for their organizations. In this edition, you’ll examine long-term trends in vulnerability disclosures and exploitation, regional differences in malware infections and the socio-economic factors that underpin them, and how ransomware evolved from an obscure threat to the most feared threat in cybersecurity. You’ll also gain valuable insights into the roles that governments play in cybersecurity, including their role as threat actors, and how to mitigate government access to data. The book concludes with a deep dive into modern approaches to cybersecurity using the cloud. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of the threat landscape, how to recognize good Cyber Threat Intelligence, and how to measure the effectiveness of your organization's cybersecurity strategy.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Different types of CISOs: “The CISO Spectrum”

After spending so much time with CISO over the past two decades, I can tell you with confidence that there are different types of CISOs. Different types of CISOs can have different approaches to cybersecurity that dictate, or at least strongly influence, the focus of their security programs.

I call this list of types of CISOs the “CISO Spectrum.” This list isn’t exhaustive; it simply contains the types of CISOs I have encountered over the past 20 years of my career:

  • Type 1: The IT Director with cybersecurity responsibility. They were perhaps the most technical of all the types of CISOs I encountered, typically having had more IT expertise than cybersecurity expertise. They knew all about the IT infrastructure that they supported and were trusted members of the IT leadership team. They were assigned cybersecurity as part of their job function. They had the aptitude and the desire to learn...