Week 9 Reading and Summary

This week’s article was about malware. The reading talks about how different types of malware such as viruses, worms, Trojans etc. are different in nature. It also covered methods of operation for different types of malware and ways to classify malware by such methods, infection vectors/payload.etc.

It is important to understand how malware works to be able to develop a good action plan to protect an enterprise from malware. The article covered a Six Step Incident Handling Process from SANS

An article I found interesting can be found at

https://threatpost.com/disclosed-netgear-router-vulnerability-under-attack/114960/