Chapter 11 When Things Go Wrong
Despite our best efforts and intentions, things go wrong. Phones get dropped in water, laptops fall off tables, hard drives and power supplies fail. Cyberthreats do not change the fact that it is a dangerous world out there; they just add another dimension of danger to existing, day-to-day threats. So, we need to assume things will go wrong, and plan accordingly. An additional wrinkle cyberthreats introduce into this planning is that we may find ourselves up against a deliberate attacker who is trying to do us wrong. An attacker who will try to defeat the measures we put in place for protection, detection, and recovery. To compensate, we need to be extra careful and plan accordingly.
Planning includes assessing ...
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