Cybersecurity and the Art of Cyberwar (Security, Audit and Leadership Series)

The relevant statistic for this book is that only twenty-nine percent of the annual, overall loss to cyber exploits is attributable to purely electronic attacks.The remaining human and physical exploits account for seventy-one percent.Hence, it is self-evident that effective cyber-protection requires an appropriately tailored and synergistic electronic, human, and physical security control system.The problem is that the industry doesn't view it that way.Over the past thirty years, cyber protection has been viewed as a purely electronic computer-based problem.That thinking might even have made sense before the advent of sophisticated social engineering and other kinds of non-electronic attacks.But now that significant losses from exploits such as insider theft or phishing can occur, any cyber defence that relies solely on an electronic solution is, almost by definition, doomed to failure.That is because the modern adversary is smart. That is why reconnaissance is the hacker's first prin