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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

Cybersecurity Strategies

Every enterprise should have a cybersecurity strategy, and the CISO of each organization should be able to articulate it. Whether your organization has a strategy or not, I hope this chapter provokes some thought and provides some tools that are helpful. In this chapter, we’ll cover a sampling of cybersecurity strategies that have been employed over the past two decades, including:

  • Protect and Recover Strategy
  • Endpoint Protection Strategy
  • Physical Control and Security Clearances Strategy
  • Compliance as a Security Strategy
  • Application-Centric Strategy
  • Identity-Centric Strategy
  • Data-Centric Strategy
  • Attack-Centric strategies
  • Zero Trust
  • A brief look at DevOps

Let’s begin by discussing which strategy is the right approach for your organization.