February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
13h 34m
English
book
Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us
by Eugene H. Spafford, Leigh Metcalf, Josiah Dykstra
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Chapter 16
Finding Hope
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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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