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This chapter encourages you to join the field of cybersecurity to leverage your existing skills and everything that you have learned in this book about the root causes of data breaches and how to fight them. The cybersecurity field is one of the highest growth fields and most deeply needed professions with hundreds of thousands of open positions in the United States and millions of open positions worldwide.
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As per statistics from CyberSeek and Cybersecurity Ventures.
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All = unencrypted data, phishing, malware, software vulnerabilities (1st and 3rd party), third-party compromise or abuse, and inadvertent employee mistakes (other than phishing)
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See the CISO Report at www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/2018-ciso-report/ for more information.
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Attributed to George Santayana, although his original quote may have read “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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This quote has often been attributed to Mark Twain, but it is unclear where it originated.
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Daswani, N., Elbayadi, M. (2021). Applying Your Skills to Cybersecurity. In: Big Breaches. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6655-7_16
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