175+ Cybersecurity Misconceptions and the Myth-Busting Skills You Need to Correct Them
Cybersecurity is fraught with hidden and unsuspected dangers and difficulties. Despite our best
intentions there are common and avoidable mistakes that arise from folk wisdom faulty
assumptions about the world and our own human biases. Cybersecurity implementations
investigations and research all suffer as a result. Many of the bad practices sound logical
especially to people new to the field of cybersecurity and that means they get adopted and
repeated despite not being correct. For instance why isn't the user the weakest link? In
Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us
three cybersecurity pioneers don't just deliver the first comprehensive collection of
falsehoods that derail security from the frontlines to the boardroom they offer expert
practical advice for avoiding or overcoming each myth. Whatever your cybersecurity role or
experience Eugene H. Spafford Leigh Metcalf and Josiah Dykstra will help you surface hidden
dangers prevent avoidable errors eliminate faulty assumptions and resist deeply human
cognitive biases that compromise prevention investigation and research. Throughout the book
you'll find examples drawn from actual cybersecurity events detailed techniques for
recognizing and overcoming security fallacies and recommended mitigations for building more
secure products and businesses. Read over 175 common misconceptions held by users leaders and
cybersecurity professionals along with tips for how to avoid them. Learn the pros and cons of
analogies misconceptions about security tools and pitfalls of faulty assumptions. What really
is the weakest link? When aren't best practices best? Discover how others understand
cybersecurity and improve the effectiveness of cybersecurity decisions as a user a developer
a researcher or a leader. Get a high-level exposure to why statistics and figures may mislead
as well as enlighten. Develop skills to identify new myths as they emerge strategies to avoid
future pitfalls and techniques to help mitigate them. You are made to feel as if you would
never fall for this and somehow this makes each case all the more memorable. . . . Read the
book laugh at the right places and put your learning to work. You won't regret it. --From the
Foreword by Vint Cerf Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer Register your book for convenient access
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