Week 3 Reflection: What Actually Stops Malware?

Use your malware case brief and defensive stack.

Write 150 to 250 words, or record an equivalent explanation, responding to this prompt:

A student says, "We have antivirus, so malware is handled." Explain why a real defense needs more than one control.

Include:

• one malware behavior from this week
• one CIA impact
• one preventive control
• one detective control
• one recovery control
• one limitation or assumption in your design
• one lesson from your historic malware case

Finish with:

The control I would trust least by itself is ________ because ________.

Your answer should explain the system, not blame a user or rely on a product name as the entire defense.