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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 summary

We have reviewed several popular cybersecurity strategies. These strategies include:

  • Protect and Recover Strategy
  • Endpoint Protection Strategy
  • Physical Control and Security Clearances Strategy
  • Compliance as a Cybersecurity Strategy
  • Application-Centric Strategy
  • Identity-Centric Strategy
  • Data-Centric Strategy
  • Attack-Centric Strategy

We also discussed Zero Trust, which I concluded wasn’t a strategy in the same way as the others on the list are.

A summary of my CFSS score estimates for these strategies is provided in Table 9.12. As you can see, I gave the Attack-Centric Strategy the highest estimated CFSS score. In my view, it is the only strategy that has the greatest potential to help organizations address the cybersecurity fundamentals, mitigate the Cybersecurity Usual Suspects, and potentially help implement advanced capabilities:

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