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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

Summary

The context I provided in this chapter will be helpful for readers throughout the rest of this book. In this chapter, I introduced the cybersecurity fundamentals and the Cybersecurity Usual Suspects; I will relentlessly refer to these concepts throughout the rest of this book.

Organizations that are very proficient at managing the cybersecurity fundamentals make it much harder for attackers to be successful. A solid foundation, focused on the fundamentals, is required for a successful strategy.

Don’t confuse an attacker’s motivations with their tactics. Since accurate attribution for attacks can be difficult or impossible to accomplish, it’s unlikely most organizations will be able to determine who is attacking them and what attackers’ motivations really are. Whether the attacker is a purveyor of commodity malware or a nation state, the ways they will try to initially compromise their victims’ IT environments are limited to the Cybersecurity...