People-Centric Security: Transforming Your Enterprise Security Culture

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Information Security: Adventures in Culture Hacking

You don’t have to go digging through technology news feeds for evidence that the world of information security is in a state of crisis. Data breaches are all over the mainstream media. Enormous in scale and frightening in their implications, major security incidents seem to be happening with alarming regularity. When it is not shady criminal hackers perpetrating the theft, we worry that it might be a hostile government gearing up for a new kind of warfare, or even our own government embracing a new age of Orwellian surveillance possibilities. And the message that resonates from the pages of information security industry magazines and websites to the keynote speeches of industry conferences ...