Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies: Learn to mitigate exploits, malware, phishing, and other social engineering attacks

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Packt Publishing Ltd, 29 Mei 2020 - 428 halaman

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 organisation

Key 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 for

This 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.

 

Halaman terpilih

Isi

Ingredients for a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy
1
Using Vulnerability Trends to Reduce Risk and Costs
31
The Evolution of the Threat Landscape Malware
89
InternetBased Threats
163
Cybersecurity Strategies
195
Strategy Implementation
263
Measuring Performance and Effectiveness
321
The Cloud A Modern Approach to Security and Compliance
355
Other Books You May Enjoy
399
Index
403
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Istilah dan frasa umum

Action Matrix Active Directory APIs applications assets automation botnets browsers chapter CISOs cloud controls are example Critical and High CSPs CVE Details CVSS cybersecurity capabilities cybersecurity fundamentals cybersecurity strategy cybersecurity usual suspects Data Execution Prevention deployed drive-by download encryption endpoint protection environments exploitation firewalls Google harder for attackers High Severity CVEs implemented infrastructure initially compromise insider threat Intrusion Kill Chain locations Low Access Complexity low complexity CVEs malicious malware infection rates Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Security Intelligence Microsoft Windows mitigate MSRT Number of Critical number of CVEs on-premises operating systems organization's organizations Percentage of Total phase phishing sites potentially ransomware reconnaissance Retrieved from Microsoft risk rootkits security and compliance security misconfigurations security teams security updates social engineering threat intelligence threat landscape typically unpatched vulnerabilities users vendors virtual machines vulnerability disclosures vulnerability management program vulnerability management teams Vulnerability Trends web browsers Windows XP worldwide average

Tentang pengarang (2020)

Tim Rains is a cybersecurity leader who has spent more than two decades helping organizations and governments understand and defend against modern threats. He has held senior security leadership roles at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, T-Mobile, and ADT, and has advised enterprises and public-sector institutions around the world on threat intelligence, incident response, cloud security, and risk management. Tim also served on a subcommittee of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), contributing national-level guidance to the President of the United States on incentivizing and measuring the adoption of cybersecurity best practices. His research on vulnerabilities, malware, and attacker behavior has shaped industry practices, and he brings a practical, data-driven perspective to helping organizations build security strategies that work in the real world.

Informasi bibliografi

JudulCybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies: Learn to mitigate exploits, malware, phishing, and other social engineering attacks
PengarangTim Rains
PenerbitPackt Publishing Ltd, 2020
ISBN1800205899, 9781800205895
Tebal428 halaman
  
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