Big Breaches
Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone
What are the root causes that have allowed attackers to break into so
many organizations? This chapter mainly focuses on six technical root
causes. Before delving into those, we first discuss three of the “meta-level”
root causes: failure to prioritize security, failure to invest in security, and
failure to execute on security initiatives. For anything important in life or
business, one may argue that these three types of failures (to prioritize,
invest, and execute) can apply to almost anything, but we will cover some
of the specifics to security in this chapter.
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