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Applying Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a very hot topic and is becoming increasingly important, not just from an economic perspective but also from a political and social perspective. The economic impact of cybersecurity is easy to understand: if information technology infrastructure is compromised in some way, it is logical to expect some kind of economic impact. What is not so apparent is the importance that cyber security has from a political and social perspective. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is representative of the importance of cybersecurity from a political perspective. In this case, the personal data of several million Facebook users was used, or at least was attempted to be used, to influence the US elections. If you take a ...