Part I: Fundamentals
1 Introduction to and brief history of cybersecurity risk management
1.1 Introduction
In today’s world, technology use has become an integral part of the human experience. This has led to unprecedented conveniences and productivity, but also to a dramatic increase in the amount of personal, business and government data that is stored and transmitted online. Given the inherently internet-connected and many times, vulnerable, nature of the technologies we use every day, an incredibly complex and dynamic ecosystem of cyberthreats constantly requires an adequate understanding of cybersecurity risk management concepts.
This hyper-connected world has created a vast attack surface. Exceedingly well-funded ...
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