Introduction

Interest in cybersecurity is on the rise. As our world becomes more and more interconnected and more and more online, the damage cyberthreats can do to our cyberworld is increasing dramatically, day by day. For those of us old enough to remember life before personal computers—not to mention the Internet—it is staggering to consider how all of this connectivity has transformed our daily lives. Yet, as the online world developed in less than a generation, the ability to protect the online world has had even less time to develop and is still maturing.

Hardly a week goes by without an announcement of a cybersecurity breach or incident of some form or another, such as the following:

  • Personal information compromised
  • Credit cards stolen ...

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