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Cybersecurity ABCs
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Cybersecurity ABCs

by Jessica Barker, Adrian Davis, Bruce Hallas, Ciarán Mc Mahon
February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
120 pages
5h 11m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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1 SECURITY AWARENESS: A PERENNIAL CHALLENGE

Adrian Davis

The topic of security awareness has exercised academics and practitioners for well over 20 years. A search for articles on ‘information security awareness’ and ‘cybersecurity awareness’ using Google Scholar, for example, yields over 3,300,000 results at the time of writing,33 while an Amazon search presents over 200 books. International and national standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27021, NIST SP 800-50 and proprietary standards such as the ISF Standard of Good Practice and ISACA COBIT 5 for information security, devote all or part of their contents to cybersecurity awareness and associated material. Innumerable presentations have been given on the topic by practitioners, academics ...

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ISBN: 9781780174266