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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

Implementing this strategy

By the end of the mapping process, CISOs and security teams should have a much better inventory of the cybersecurity capabilities and controls that have been deployed, as well as how the data from these are being consumed by the organization. This is a great starting point for implementing the Intrusion Kill Chain framework. However, do not underestimate how challenging it can be for organizations with large, complex IT environments to accomplish this.

For some organizations, it will be easier to divide mapping work into smaller, more achievable projects focused on parts of their environment, than trying to map their entire environment. Moving forward with this strategy without an accurate, current mapping can easily lead to overinvestments, under-investments, and gaps in security capabilities. Although these can be corrected over time, it will likely make it more expensive and time-consuming than it needs to be.

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Figure 10.5: An example of a...