Chapter 16

Finding Hope

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

You have reached the end of the book. So, unless you skipped some chapters, you have read about many human biases, perceptual issues, misconceptions, and mistakes. It is pretty daunting, taken as a whole, and perhaps a bit depressing, and we did not even cover all of them. How are we, as people and cybersecurity professionals, to stay optimistic about the outlook for security with so many misconceptions? One of our reviewers pleaded that we include a final chapter with some words of hope after reading only partway through this book!

We want to stress that we are all human.1 As a species, we have a history ...

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