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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

Chapter summary

Governments typically pledge to provide their citizens with national security, law enforcement, judicial systems, and other essential functions that provide security and support citizens’ pursuit of happiness. To do this, governments organize themselves into different departments, ministries, and agencies. In this chapter we explored the different roles governments play in providing cybersecurity for their citizens and some real-world examples of how they do this.

The roles governments play in cybersecurity include governments as market participants, governments as standards bodies, governments as enforcers, and governments as defenders. We examined each of these roles in this chapter.

Governments are market participants in that they have purchasing power in markets for cybersecurity products, services, and professional services. They also compete for cybersecurity talent with the private sector.

In their role as standards bodies, governments work with industry...