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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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Adrian Davis

Much of this book was written before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020. At a time when many organisations have the majority of their staff working from home and social distancing is the norm, the concepts we have discussed here – security awareness, behaviours and organisational cultures – can seem disconnected from the reality we are experiencing at the time of writing and the cybersecurity challenges we face.

However, these concepts are more meaningful than ever. As individuals come to terms with working from home using new IT, new software and becoming more reliant on their own judgement when it comes to cybersecurity, the ABCs assume a new and more important role. For many individuals, if they ...

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