How to Defeat Advanced Malware: New Tools for Protection and Forensics

by Henry Dalziel, Simon Crosby (Editor)

Overview

How to Defeat Advanced Malware is a concise introduction to the concept of micro-virtualization. The book provides current facts and figures that prove detection- based security products have become ineffective. A simple strategy is then presented that both leverages the opportunities presented by Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and protects enterprise end users against advanced malware. The book concludes with case studies demonstrating how hardware- isolated micro-VMs are helping Fortune 500 financial service providers defeat advanced malware. This book is primarily designed for infosec professionals, consultants, network administrators, CIO's, CTO's, CISO's and senior executives who work within the financial industry and are responsible for their company's endpoint protection. How to Defeat Advanced Malware: New Tools for Protection and Forensics is the first book to compare and contrast current endpoint security products, while making a case for encouraging and facilitating the growth of BYOD and social media by adopting micro-virtualization. - Learn the basics of protecting your company's online-accessible assets - Discover strategies that take advantage of micro-virtualization and BYOD - Become adept at comparing and utilizing different endpoint security products and strategies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128027530
Publisher:	Syngress Publishing
Publication date:	12/05/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	50
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Henry Dalziel is a serial education entrepreneur, founder of Concise Ac Ltd, online cybersecurity blogger and e-book author. He writes for the Concise-Courses.com blog and has developed numerous cybersecurity continuing education courses and books. Concise Ac Ltd develops and distributes continuing education content [books and courses] for cybersecurity professionals seeking skill enhancement and career advancement. The company was recently accepted onto the UK Trade & Investment's (UKTI) Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP).
Simon Crosby is Co–founder and CTO at Bromium and Bromium Labs. The Bromium Labs team of security analysts has extensive experience in building innovative technologies to counter and defend against advanced attacks. While Bromium has created an innovative new technology called micro-virtualization to address the enterprise security problem and provide protection for end users against advanced malware.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  A Primer on Detection for Security Chapter 2: 2014 Endpoint Exploitation Trends Chapter 3: A Proposed Solution Chapter 4: Protection's Weak Link Chapter 5: Micro-virtualization