Skip to Main Content
Understanding Security Issues
book

Understanding Security Issues

by Scott Donaldson, Chris Williams, Stanley Siegel
December 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
5h 45m
English
De Gruyter
Content preview from Understanding Security Issues

Chapter 1 Security Mindset

In this book we are going to introduce you to the things you need to know to better protect your workplace and your home from technology related security attacks (cybersecurity). The best way to start is to understand our enemies. Later in the book we will examine what they may try to do and how we can protect ourselves.

To understand our enemies, we should put ourselves into their minds and understand their motivations, objectives, and techniques. Once we understand the adversary, we should think a little bit about ourselves. Where and when are we vulnerable? How do we make ourselves more vulnerable? What habits do we have that make the attackers’ jobs easier? How can we change some of those habits, and improve our ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Reinventing the Organization for GenAI and LLMs

Reinventing the Organization for GenAI and LLMs

Ethan Mollick
Assessing Information Security: Strategies, tactics, logic and framework

Assessing Information Security: Strategies, tactics, logic and framework

Andrew Vladimirov, Konstantin Gavrilenko, Andriej Michajlowski
Securing VoIP

Securing VoIP

Regis Jr (Bud) Bates
Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems

Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems

Houbing Song, Glenn A. Fink, Sabina Jeschke

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781501506369