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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies - Second Edition

By : Tim Rains
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Book Image

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

Industry Vulnerability Disclosure Trends

First, let’s look at the vulnerability disclosures each year since the CVE List was started in 1999. It is interesting to note that I can find vulnerabilities with publication dates going back to January 1989 (CVE-1999-1471) in the NVD. Vulnerabilities published prior to 1999 appear to have been assigned CVE IDs starting with “1999” because that’s when the first CVE List was collected and published by MITRE. An archived bulletin published by the Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at NIST in July 2000 provides some historical insight into the early days of the NVD. NIST’s original CVE search service was called ICAT.

The Computer Security Division at NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory has created a searchable index containing 700 of the most important publicly known computer security vulnerabilities. This index, called ICAT (pronounced eye-cat), helps the...