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

The Last Watchdog

Assessing the risks involved in using the latest technology is something our culture had to adopt in the early days of the computer. New technologies come with risks — there’s no denying that. military officials hired data analysts to crack the Japanese secret code known as JN-25. The Creeper Virus (1971).

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Thinking About the Future of InfoSec (v2022)

Daniel Miessler

This includes making sure only the right people are looking at the right data, only the right people are logging into the right systems, that services are available with enough 9’s, that they’re responsive, etc. More Data Analysts (statistics and ML background, combined with data visualization).

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