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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613672
Length 584 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

Security and compliance game changers

There are numerous ways that the cloud can tilt the playing field in favor of defenders. In this section, I’ll cover two security and compliance game changers.

The power of APIs

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide a powerful mechanism for systems to interact with humans and other systems. There are different kinds of APIs, but generally, APIs define the specific inputs a system is willing to accept and the outputs it will provide. The details of how the system processes inputs and provides outputs can be abstracted from view, thus simplifying the system for humans and other systems that want to use it. In other words, I don’t need to know how the system works internally in order to use it. I just need to know about its APIs. I can call an API and pass it the information it requires and then wait for the output, while the magic of software happens.

Magic here is a euphemism for all the smart engineers’...

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