Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions

• Titel: Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions
• Titelzusatz: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us
• Verlagsort: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]
• Verlag: Pearson
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 online resource (1 audio file)
• Fussnoten: Machine-generated record
• ISBN: 978-0-13-534601-3
• ISBN: 0-13-534601-0
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: und
• Sach-SW: Sécurité informatique
• Sach-SW: Audiobooks
• Sach-SW: Livres audio
• K10plus-PPN: 1890483621
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext
• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
• Bibliothek/Idn: UW / m4533709729
• Lokale URL Inst.: Zum Volltext

Abstract

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.