Chapter 1
What Is Cybersecurity?
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
If you are reading this book, you are likely interested in cybersecurity. We present several ideas and lessons in this work that address more general topics in computing (and elsewhere). Still, the primary application area is cybersecurity. Whether you are a student, a practitioner, an executive, a regulator, or a criminal (tsk-tsk, unless you paid for a copy of this book, in which case simply tsk), the material we present has a bearing on what you do.
In this chapter, we will explore why the broad concept of cybersecurity is ripe with misconceptions, why the term is not defined well, and why we do not have any reasonable way to ...
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