CHAPTER 11

Encryption Is the Ultimate Security Blanket

In prior chapters, we discussed the power of multifactor authentication, or MFA, as a backup measure to bolster an enterprisewide password management policy that hardwires the use of strong passwords and bans reusing passwords. We also discussed a company’s most powerful asset—its employees—as the bulwark countermeasure standing between cybercriminals and the company’s computer network. A cyber-savvy workforce, steeped in the basics of cyber hygiene, is an organization’s first and strongest line of defense against the onslaught of a ransomware attack or massive data breach.

But employees are not robots (at least, not yet!), and we mere mortals make mistakes. Sometimes…

A cybercriminal ...

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