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Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies

You're reading from Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies Discover risk mitigation strategies for modern threats to your organization

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804613672

Length 584 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Tim Rains

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction

2. What to Know about Threat Intelligence FREE CHAPTER

3. Using Vulnerability Trends to Reduce Risk and Costs

4. The Evolution of Malware

5. Internet-Based Threats

6. The Roles Governments Play in Cybersecurity

7. Government Access to Data

8. Ingredients for a Successful Cybersecurity Strategy

9. Cybersecurity Strategies

10. Strategy Implementation

11. Measuring Performance and Effectiveness

12. Modern Approaches to Security and Compliance

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

14. Index

Global malware evolution

Understanding the evolution of malware will help CISOs and security teams put the hysteria they read in the news into context. Keep the Cybersecurity Usual Suspects in the back of your mind as you read this section.

In the wake of the successful large-scale worm attacks of 2003 and early 2004, Microsoft introduced Windows XP Service Pack 2 in August of 2004. Among other things, Windows XP Service Pack 2 turned on the Windows Firewall by default for the first time in a Windows operating system. Prior to this, it was an optional setting that was left to customers to turn on, configure, and test with their applications. This service pack also offered Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) for the first time in a Windows operating system (David Ladd, 2011). These three features blunted the success of future mass worm attacks that sought to use the same tactics as SQL Slammer and MSBlaster.

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Authors (1)

Tim Rains

Tim Rains

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.

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