Reference no: EM133725108

Question: As a cybersecurity professional, it is important for you to not only understand the organizational and national human and technical factors, but because you will encounter international threats and concerns, it's also important to be able to recognize threats from other countries.

This is the last of six sequential projects. In this project, you are tasked with creating a chart that depicts your recommendations regarding the assessment and evaluation of the cybersecurity threats and policies that can be linked to origins in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and other regions, including the relevant cultural differences in global security outlooks across these regions. You will base your findings from the view of a consultant to an international company looking to expand in those geographical areas. Generally, what kind of cybersecurity climate will the company encounter?

In your research, focus on a malicious cyber technology or capability (malware) that is specific to the global environment, i.e., Trojans, rootkits, worms, spyware, keystroke loggers, or advanced persistent threats (do not select botnets, as they will be studied separately in this project). Along with your country threat assessments, you must also assess and evaluate the evolution of this malware and recommend how global cybersecurity policies might be used to counter the effects.

You will review the characteristics of your chosen malware by discussing six specific characteristics (purpose, size, attack method, attribution, etc.) and describe how these characteristics have emerged, changed, or evolved over the past five to 10 years. Also discuss what contributing factors may cause these characteristics to change, and how these characteristics may change over the next 10 years. How might these technologies be countered by global cybersecurity policy controls (do not describe technology controls) in the future? Support your position with policy, security practice, theories, principles, and recommendations based on your own thoughts, examples, and cited references.

Finally, you will study botnets, which are a specific and particularly pervasive type of malware. You will learn about the global nature of botnets and the emerging security issues associated with botnets, to include their impact on the formulation of global cybersecurity policies.