Technology Defenses to Fight the Root Causes of Breach: Part One
Neil Daswani, Moudy Elbayadi · Apress eBooks · 2021
In the first chapter of this book, we focused on identifying the root causes of data breaches based on hard data from over 9,000 breaches. Then, in the first part of this book, we provided examples of mega-breaches that occurred as a result of these root causes. The root causes are phishing, malware, software vulnerabilities, third-party compromise or abuse, unencrypted data, and inadvertent employee mistakes (separate from phishing). We opened the second part of this book by delving into the key habits that need to be cultivated to support a security program oriented around continuous improvement. We followed up with advice to leadership on how to have discussions about cybersecurity at the board level.