Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone

© Neil Daswani and Moudy Elbayadi 2021

N. Daswani, M. ElbayadiBig Breacheshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6655-7_15

15. Advice to Consumers

Neil Daswani¹   and Moudy Elbayadi²

(1)

Pleasanton, CA, USA

(2)

Carlsbad, CA, USA

 

The root causes of breach that we outlined in Chapter 1 are responsible for security breaches across industries and in both enterprise and government entities. But what’s more troubling is that these breaches are often the result of an organization’s insufficient actions or failure to take action to fully address the causes. In this chapter, we turn our focus to the rest of us, from enterprises to consumers. We will use the term consumer to reflect the reality that we not only consume physical goods and services but also digital ...