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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 Defenders

Law enforcement is largely reactive. That is, someone commits a crime and then law enforcement swings into action. Governments can also invest in proactive cybersecurity capabilities. That is, things that can help mitigate or blunt attacks against institutions, firms, and citizens. There are at least three functions that governments provide when playing the role of defender in a cybersecurity context: public safety, national security, and military.

Public Safety

First, most major national governments have a department or ministry that is responsible for public safety. Sometimes public safety is a subset of the work a government department does. Over the past dozen years, I’ve seen more and more countries create new national cybersecurity centers that include public safety, among other things, in their charters. Examples include the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre of Ireland (NCSC), The French National...