Rains Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies

Learn to mitigate exploits, malware, phishing, and other social engineering attacks
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80020-589-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 428 Seiten

A comprehensive guide for cybersecurity professionals to acquire unique insights on the evolution of the threat landscape and how you can address modern cybersecurity challenges in your organisationKey Features - Protect your organization from cybersecurity threats with field-tested strategies
- Discover the most common ways enterprises initially get compromised
- Measure the effectiveness of your organization’s current cybersecurity program against cyber attacks
Book DescriptionAfter scrutinizing numerous cybersecurity strategies, Microsoft’s former Global Chief Security Advisor in this book helps you understand the efficacy of popular cybersecurity strategies and more. Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies offers an unprecedented long-term view of the global threat landscape by examining the twenty-year trend in vulnerability disclosures and exploitation, nearly a decade of regional differences in malware infections, the socio-economic factors that underpin them, and how global malware has evolved. This will give you further perspectives into malware protection for your organization. It also examines internet-based threats that CISOs should be aware of. The book will provide you with an evaluation of the various cybersecurity strategies that have ultimately failed over the past twenty years, along with one or two that have actually worked. It will help executives and security and compliance professionals understand how cloud computing is a game changer for them. By the end of this book, you will know how to measure the effectiveness of your organization’s cybersecurity strategy and the efficacy of the vendors you employ to help you protect your organization and yourself.What you will learn - Discover cybersecurity strategies and the ingredients critical to their success
- Improve vulnerability management by reducing risks and costs for your organization
- Learn how malware and other threats have evolved over the past decade
- Mitigate internet-based threats, phishing attacks, and malware distribution sites
- Weigh the pros and cons of popular cybersecurity strategies of the past two decades
- Implement and then measure the outcome of a cybersecurity strategy
- Learn how the cloud provides better security capabilities than on-premises IT environments
Who this book is forThis book is designed to benefit engineers, leaders, or any professional with either a responsibility for cyber security within their organization, or an interest in working in this ever-growing field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rains, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Netzwerksicherheit
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents - Ingredients for a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy
- Using Vulnerability Trends to Reduce Risk and Costs
- The Evolution of the Threat Landscape

- Internet-Based Threats
- Cybersecurity Strategies
- Strategy Implementation
- Measuring Performance and Effectiveness
- The Cloud - A Modern Approach to Security and Compliance

Über Autor(innen)

Rains Tim :

Tim Rains is an internationally recognized cybersecurity executive, advisor, and author. Currently, Tim is Vice President Trust & Cyber Risk at T-Mobile where he leads risk, strategy, assurance, compliance, and vulnerability management. Prior to this, Tim was the Global Security Lead for Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services. Tim also held the post of Executive Director Cybersecurity Strategy at the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, the world's largest gaming company. Tim spent 17 years at Microsoft where he worked in numerous roles including Global Chief Security Advisor, Director of Trustworthy Computing, and Technical Lead of Microsoft's customer-facing Security Incident Response Team.