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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

Oblivious behaviors

We'll start by discussing the kind of behavior you might find from an oblivious, non-malicious insider threat. Oblivious employees aren't motivated by any desire to cause harm, or even by laziness or resistance to protocol; they simply don't understand that the actions they're taking, or forgetting to take, cause holes in their organization's security.

Unattended computers are a hazard

One classic form of oblivious behavior is leaving computers unattended when outside the organization – I've seen this many times at conferences, even security conferences. People go and check in their laptops along with their coats! They hand the laptop over for a checkout ticket, getting a false sense of security and trust because they've got the checkout ticket in their possession. That makes them feel like the laptop's safe; when really, it's been taken by an individual you don't know, to a place you can&apos...

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