SIR Special Edition

Regime Stability, Demographic Instability and Regional Malware Infection Rates – Part 3: Iraq

- Tim Rains - Director, Cybersecurity & Cloud Strategy

This is the final part of a three part series exploring the question of whether regions that experience political instability also experience increased malware infection rates and face more severe threats compared to more stable locations.  I examined Egypt in part 1 of this series, and Syria in part 2.  In this article I look at the threat landscape in Iraq using data from a new Special Edition Microsoft Security … Read more »

Regime Stability, Demographic Instability and Regional Malware Infection Rates – Part 2: Syria

- Tim Rains - Director, Cybersecurity & Cloud Strategy

This is part two of a three part series exploring the question of whether regions that experience political instability also experience increased malware infection rates and face more severe threats compared to more stable locations.  I examined Egypt in part 1 of this series.  In this article, using data from a new Special Edition Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Linking Cybersecurity Policy and Performance and volume 13 of the Microsoft Security … Read more »

Regime Stability, Demographic Instability and Regional Malware Infection Rates – Part 1: Egypt

- Tim Rains - Director, Cybersecurity & Cloud Strategy

One question I have been asked on occasion is whether regions that experience political instability also experience increased malware infection rates and face more severe cyber-threats compared to more stable locations.  Recently, we published a new Special Edition Microsoft Security Intelligence Report: Linking Cybersecurity Policy and Performance.  This new report examines the correlation between thirty-four different socio-economic factors and regional malware infection rates across 105 countries.  I used this new … Read more »