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 to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

175+ Cybersecurity Misconceptions and the Myth-Busting Skills You Need to Correct Them Elected into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame! 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 to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

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Stepping Through Cybersecurity Risk Management Authoritative resource delivering the professional practice of cybersecurity from the perspective of enterprise governance and risk management. Stepping Through Cybersecurity Risk Management covers the professional practice of cybersecurity from the perspective of enterprise governance and risk management. It describes the state of the art in cybersecurity risk identification, classification, measurement, remediation, monitoring and reporting. It includes industry standard techniques for examining cybersecurity threat actors, cybersecurity attacks in the context of cybersecurity-related events, technology controls, cybersecurity measures and metrics, cybersecurity issue tracking and analysis, and risk and control assessments. The text provides precise definitions for information relevant to cybersecurity management decisions and recommendations for collecting and consolidating that information in the service of enterprise risk management. The objective is to enable the reader to recognize, understand, and apply risk-relevant information to the analysis, evaluation, and mitigation of cybersecurity risk. A well-rounded resource, the text describes both reports and studies that improve cybersecurity decision support. Composed of 10 chapters, the author provides learning objectives, exercises and quiz questions per chapter in an appendix, with quiz answers and exercise grading criteria available to professors. Written by a highly qualified professional with significant experience in the field, Stepping Through Cybersecurity Risk Management includes information on: Threat actors and networks, attack vectors, event sources, security operations, and CISO risk evaluation criteria with respect to this activity Control process, policy, standard, procedures, automation, and guidelines, along with risk and control self assessment and compliance with regulatory standards Cybersecurity measures and metrics, and corresponding key risk indicators The role of humans in security, including the “three lines of defense” approach, auditing, and overall human risk management Risk appetite, tolerance, and categories, and analysis of alternative security approaches via reports and studies Providing comprehensive coverage on the topic of cybersecurity through the unique lens of perspective of enterprise governance and risk management, Stepping Through Cybersecurity Risk Management is an essential resource for professionals engaged in compliance with diverse business risk appetites, as well as regulatory requirements such as FFIEC, HIIPAA, and GDPR, as well as a comprehensive primer for those new to the field. A complimentary forward by Professor Gene Spafford explains why “This book will be helpful to the newcomer as well as to the hierophants in the C-suite. The newcomer can read this to understand general principles and terms. The C-suite occupants can use the material as a guide to check that their understanding encompasses all it should.”

How much do you really know about the FBI? Like most people, you’ve probably learned about the FBI from popular culture–reading books and watching TV shows and movies, along with, of course, the news. You might be surprised to learn that a lot of what you’ve been reading and watching is inaccurate. Written by retired Special Agent, crime novelist, and true crime podcaster, Jerri Williams, FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives debunks twenty clichés and misconceptions about the FBI, by presenting educational reality checks supported by excerpts from the FBI website, quotes from retired agents, and reviews of popular films and fiction featuring FBI agent characters. This informative and fun manual will help you: - Create realistic FBI characters and plots for your next book or script - Impress armchair detective friends with your knowledge about the FBI - Prepare for a career in the FBI and avoid embarrassing yourself at Quantico Get your copy today!

Cybersecurity is broken. Year after year, attackers remain unchallenged and undeterred, while engineering teams feel pressure to design, build, and operate "secure" systems. Failure can't be prevented, mental models of systems are incomplete, and our digital world constantly evolves. How can we verify that our systems behave the way we expect? What can we do to improve our systems' resilience? In this comprehensive guide, authors Kelly Shortridge and Aaron Rinehart help you navigate the challenges of sustaining resilience in complex software systems by using the principles and practices of security chaos engineering. By preparing for adverse events, you can ensure they don't disrupt your ability to innovate, move quickly, and achieve your engineering and business goals. Learn how to design a modern security program Make informed decisions at each phase of software delivery to nurture resilience and adaptive capacity Understand the complex systems dynamics upon which resilience outcomes depend Navigate technical and organizational trade-offsthat distort decision making in systems Explore chaos experimentation to verify critical assumptions about software quality and security Learn how major enterprises leverage security chaos engineering