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The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches

De: Josephine Wolff

Narrado por: Kate Reading

Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach - the theft of 145.5 million Americans' information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government's theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump - makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of alarm and amnesia continues with the next attack, and the one after that.

In this book, cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we shouldn't forget about these incidents, we should investigate their trajectory, from technology flaws to reparations for harm done to their impact on future security measures. We can learn valuable lessons in the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches.

Wolff describes a series of significant cybersecurity incidents between 2005 and 2015, mapping the entire life cycle of each breach in order to identify opportunities for defensive intervention. She outlines three types of motives underlying these attacks - financial gain, espionage, and public humiliation of the victims - that have remained consistent through a decade of cyberattacks, offers examples of each, and analyzes the emergence of different attack patterns.

The enormous TJX breach in 2006, for instance, set the pattern for a series of payment card fraud incidents that led to identity fraud and extortion; the Chinese army conducted cyberespionage campaigns directed at US-based companies from 2006 to 2014, sparking debate about the distinction between economic and political espionage; and the 2014 breach of the Ashley Madison website was aimed at reputations rather than bank accounts.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Josephine Wolff (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Good primer

Good primer on why cybersecurity policy is lacking. Unfortunately the publishers chose to have it narrated as if the intended audience was 80 yo senators - but then again, they really should read this.

good read

it's a little dated at the time of my writing this, but it's still relevant to understand the motivations of cyber attackers. it's an important read.

The case studies are fascinating

The case studies discussed in this book are fascinating and we're contemporary for me which made them all the more engaging. however the subsequent analysis is very repetitive and in some cases speculative and off the mark. still, a good book and lessons to be learned.

No way..

This title revealed things I've been voicing to those around me for some time now

The CISO essential book.

A piece of very well detailed information regarding the major cybersecurity incidents pre and post cyberattacks that happened in recent history.

Best at explaing complex Cyber Security Issues

I enjoyed this audio book form beginning to end, taking very complicated issues and making sense of them. I look forward to more audio works by this author.

Not worth your money or time

Security incidents documented or way too old to be of any relevance. Chapter one was a total waste of time. Chapter 1 was the author telling you that she's going to tell you about something rather than just telling you about something. Chapter 2 and on I got tired of hearing, "That fix might have worked, but they might have found another way in." Don't waste your money on this book.

slow and mechanical

difficult to listen to the reading machine-like articulation and the slow cadence of the speech along with the clinically slow set up before getting to the point, I think there was a point, was trying.