Cybersecurity Myths and Misperceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us

The book is authored by
me (Eugene H. Spafford), Leigh Metcalf, and Josiah Dykstra, with a Foreword
by Vint Cerf and whimsical illustrations by Pattie Spafford.

What the book is about: Cybersecurity is fraught with hidden and unsuspected
dangers and difficulties. Despite our best intentions, common and avoidable
mistakes arise from folk wisdom, faulty assumptions about the world, and our
own human biases. Cybersecurity implementations, investigations, and
research all suffer as a result. Many of the bad practices sound logical, …

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