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Security FORCE: A Behavioral Model for People-Centric Security

Information security professionals need new ways of thinking about the problems we face and how to confront them. In the industry, we talk a lot about how much the world has changed over the years. Our current technology environments would be stunningly complex to early security professionals, and our threat environments would be terrifying. I remember when firewalls were all we needed to protect our networks, intrusion detection systems were a new-fangled technology, VPNs didn’t exist (at least not for the common person), and cell phones could only be used as phones. It’s like the opposite of the old man telling tales of walking to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill ...

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