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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

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We’ve seen that a great source of data for malicious websites, like phishing sites and drive-by download sites, are internet search engines and popular web browsers. These data sources can also give us a glimpse into malware-hosting sites on the internet. I say a glimpse, because things can change very quickly as many attackers have become adept at covering their tracks and making it hard to find the infrastructure they use for their attacks. Remember, no one is omniscient. We have a bunch of data snapshots that we can stitch together over time to provide us with a glimpse of the threat landscape. Frequently, the landscape changes before researchers can collect, analyze, understand, and act on such data.

This is where the promise of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is helping – churning through massive amounts of complicated datasets much faster than humans can do this job manually. And, of course, attackers have also been...