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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

Vulnerability Management Guidance

A well-run vulnerability management program is critical for all organizations. As you've seen from the data and analysis in this chapter, there have been lots of vulnerabilities disclosed across the industry and the volumes have been increasing, not decreasing. At the end of 2021, there were over 167,000 CVEs in the NVD. Attackers know this and understand how challenging it is for organizations to keep up with the volume and complexity of patching the various hardware and software products they have in their environments. Defenders have to be perfect while attackers just have to be good or lucky once. Let me provide you with some recommendations regarding vulnerability management programs.

First, I cannot overstate the importance of asset management and its role enabling effective vulnerability management, incident response, and many other aspects of IT management. If an organization doesn’t maintain an accurate inventory of IT assets, it...