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Cyber Minds

You're reading from   Cyber Minds Insights on cybersecurity across the cloud, data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and IoT to keep you cyber safe

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
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ISBN-13 9781789807004
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shira Rubinoff Shira Rubinoff
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Integrating Humans and Technology – Four Steps to Cyber Hygiene 2. How Risky Behavior Leads to Data Breaches FREE CHAPTER 3. Blockchain – The Unwritten Chapter on Cybersecurity 4. Cybersecurity in the Cloud – What You Need to Know 5. The World's Biggest Data Breaches – Proactive and Reactive Approaches 6. Trends in Cybersecurity 7. Staying Cybersecure in the IoT Revolution 8. Cyberwars – Bringing Military Lessons to Modern Information Security 9. Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) be Trusted to Run Cybersecurity? 10. Conclusion 11. Other Books You May Enjoy
12. Index

How Risky Behavior Leads to Data Breaches

Many employees have a lot on their plate and work hard to keep up with their rigorous job responsibilities. To meet the demands of their position, they create shortcuts to expeditiously accomplish their tasks and not get mired in the details. Herein lies the problem of risky employee behavior – in many cases, employees are not aware that their shortcuts or truncations of protocol are creating gaping holes in an organization's cyber hygiene. They may not mean to harm the organization, and their behavior is certainly non-malicious, but their risky behaviors have turned them into insider threats all the same.

This chapter is about this behavior and how it can lead to devastating outcomes. In reality, a great deal of this risky behavior can be stopped by creating cognizance around the implications of these actions. In most cases, employees are woefully unaware of the consequences of their actions, and what they don't realize...

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