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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. military officials hired data analysts to crack the Japanese secret code known as JN-25. After the devastating blow of Pearl Harbor, U.S.

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Applying Heuristics in Cybersecurity

Approachable Cyber Threats

When we ask an expert to provide a risk estimate – for example, “How much would a data breach involving this server cost us?”, 1 million dollars”) while others will try heuristics like counting the number of confidential files on a server and multiplying that number by a “cost per file breached” dollar amount. executives).