Asset Protection through Security Awareness

4 Diplomacy

DOI: 10.1201/b11355-4

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Daniel Vare

Security specialists cannot afford to stay in their offices and simply study network topology diagrams and the current penetration testing techniques. They must get out and interact with the people they serve in order to most effectively protect their work and precious data from being lost or compromised. They must also not look at the situation as though they were somehow like Prometheus, bringing some sacred and hitherto unknown knowledge to the masses. By getting to know the people they serve, security specialists will not only be imparting critical security training to the end users who need assured access to their data; end users will ...