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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

Governments as Cybersecurity Market Participants

Governments participate in all sorts of markets. They license intellectual property, lease, buy, and sell assets such as real estate, securities, energy, advertising, goods, and services. Governments procure and manage fleets of automobiles, ships, and aircraft. Governments are also very active in labor markets where they are typically major employers that hire and fire employees, contract workers, agencies, and other outside parties. The economies of most countries rely on governments as major sources of spending and employment.

The scope and scale of national governments typically dwarf even the largest private sector enterprises within their borders. Remember that national governments typically have numerous departments or ministries that represent arms of the military, national police, national courts, national intelligence capabilities, national banks, healthcare institutions, education institutions, energy, and many other functions...