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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

As I mentioned in Chapter 8, Ingredients for a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy, some of the cybersecurity professionals I have met with have a negative reaction when the term “strategy” is used in a cybersecurity context. This is a word that can be used in at least a few different ways. Security and compliance professionals sometimes use the term “strategy” when they are referring to frameworks, models, or standards. I explained what I mean when I use this term, in detail, in Chapter 8, Ingredients for a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy. If you haven’t read that chapter already, I recommend that you read it because it provides a lot of context that I won’t repeat here. You’ll see me use the terms framework, approach, and model, interchangeably throughout all the chapters. Please feel free to associate whatever term makes the most sense to you when I use any of these terms.

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