Stopping Losses from Accidental and Malicious Actions
Around the world, users cost organizations billions of dollars due to
simple errors and malicious actions. They believe that there is some
deficiency in the users. In response, organizations believe that they
have to improve their awareness efforts and making more secure users.
This is like saying that coalmines should get healthier canaries. The
reality is that it takes a multilayered approach that acknowledges that
users will inevitably make mistakes or have malicious intent, and the
failure is in not planning for that. It takes a holistic approach to
assessing risk combined with technical defenses and countermeasures
layered with a security culture and continuous improvement. Only with
this kind of defense in depth can organizations hope to prevent the
worst of the cybersecurity breaches and other user-initiated losses.
Using lessons from tested and proven disciplines like military
kill-chain analysis, counterterrorism analysis, industrial safety
programs, and more, Ira Winkler and Dr. Tracy Celaya's You CAN Stop
Stupid provides a methodology to analyze potential losses and determine
appropriate countermeasures to implement.
- Minimize business losses associated with user failings
- Proactively plan to prevent and mitigate data breaches
- Optimize your security spending
- Cost justify your security and loss reduction efforts
- Improve your organization's culture
Business technology and security professionals will benefit from the
information provided by these two well-known and influential
cybersecurity speakers and experts.
