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Neil and Moudy have written a book that will help us reduce our exposure
as a society to future “big breaches” but also to many of the technology
risks we face in an increasingly digitized society. They do this not by
presenting a “recipe” for success but by making the subject accessible to
audiences who are not usually addressed by cybersecurity books.
Cybersecurity, or more broadly computer and information security,
is now very clearly a concern for more than just the security specialist or
the software engineer. That’s been true for a while. But while the technical
bookshelves are full of security textbooks and guides, I don’t think we’ve
yet seen the range of material which would help bring a greater variety of
backgrounds and professions into the security tent. Policy and political
analysis or hacker human interest stories are increasingly common subject
matter for the publishing industry. They are important as the field grows,
but I see in Big Breaches a category that blazes a different and challenging
trail—bridging the divide between the deep technical details of attacks
and the practical technical, corporate, and societal actions which would
make us less vulnerable. It is not easy to summarize or simplify while
remaining accurate and useful, but that is what this book does. I hope Big
Breaches is but one of the many books that will continue to fill this gap of
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