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The Global Cyber-Vulnerability Report

Part of the Terrorism, Security, and Computation Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25760-0

ISBN: 978-3-319-25758-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 10, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Subrahmanian, V. S.; Ovelgönne, Michael; Dumitras, Tudor; Prakash, B. Aditya

Pages: 1 –32

[This chapter summarizes the results of a study analyzing 2 years of data provided by Symantec, monitoring over 4M host machines per year and a total of over 20B telemetry reports from these hosts. By focusing on 44 countries for which at least 500 hosts were monitored per year, we are able to...
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Chapter 2Types of Malware and Malware Distribution Strategies

Subrahmanian, V. S.; Ovelgönne, Michael; Dumitras, Tudor; Prakash, B. Aditya

Pages: 33 –46

[The goal of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of different types of malware that have been used to carry out cyber-attacks. In most cases, we will provide examples of each category of malware. Moreover, malware tends to be distributed in different ways and propagate in different ways....
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Chapter 3Methodology and Measurement

Subrahmanian, V. S.; Ovelgönne, Michael; Dumitras, Tudor; Prakash, B. Aditya

Pages: 47 –67

[Our Global Cyber-Vulnerability Report was created by analyzing over 20 billion telemetry records (both binary reputation and malware reports) during a 2-year period in which we had data on over 4M machines per year. In this chapter, we briefly overview the methodology used in the creation of...
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Chapter 4Human Behavior and Susceptibility to Cyber-Attacks

Subrahmanian, V. S.; Ovelgönne, Michael; Dumitras, Tudor; Prakash, B. Aditya

Pages: 69 –92

[While human users are often considered to be the weakest link in security systems, the risks associated with their typical day-to-day computing habits are not well understood. Using Symantec’s WINE platform, we conduct a detailed study of 13.7B pieces of malware over a population of 1.6 million...
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Chapter 5Country by Country Analysis

Subrahmanian, V. S.; Ovelgönne, Michael; Dumitras, Tudor; Prakash, B. Aditya

Pages: 93 –291

[In this chapter, we present a detailed summary of the cyber-vulnerability of each of the 44 countries in our study. We start with a summary of the national cybersecurity strategy for that country. In some cases, the country has not published a national cybersecurity strategy, but most of the 44...

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