This book is not what you think!
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This is a book that can be found interesting to anyone and isn't necessarily for the experts in cybersecurity, although the author's premise makes me think even they would benefit. I like the way the book was organized and found it to be well written. It's scary how widespread the threats of hacking and cyber warfare are, but at the same time its good to know that there are people working on these problems as their career. Interesting book. I can see why it is the BOTM!
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Everything he says in the book can be used in different aspects of life as well, not just cybersecurity which I thought was really smart and useful!
I really enjoyed reading this book to my surprise, and I actually learned something from reading it!
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Thank you so much. I would have never thought this is what the book entails. I read a few pages and I thought maybe this book is only for someone who understands cybersecurity in depth and so I gave up. But after listening to your review I feel the need to pick up the book right away.SWETA SATPATHY wrote: ↑07 Jun 2023, 07:25 Someone hacked into Linkedin's database in 2021 and sold the personal info of 700 million users. The person went by the name "God User." How do I know this! Does that matter? Can you even trust this post? You can't tell if a post is a post now or propaganda; you can't tell if what the post says is authentic or fake now, and you need to know if the camera on your device is shut off or not when you are reading this! We can't really know stuff now.
I know this because cybersecurity is a weird thing now. It is not so new as artificial intelligence that everyone wants to learn about. Also, it is not so old that it has lost its relevance. What it is, is heavily injected into our lives, so much so that we can lose our bread and butter, our job, our security, lives of our family members, if cybersecurity didn't exist. But I didn't realize how thousands of people are actively working to build a cyber-secure world. It was about the time when I read this book. The opening statement is one to cheer for. The book starts with the same naïve approach of the generation not born in a world with cyber threats. But it goes on to teach why that is irrelevant; you are now in a warzone, and realizing it when it's too late is unacceptable.
This book is not what it looks like at all. This book is not for an average person trying to get into essential cybersecurity or anyone who is a cybersecurity expert. This is no skilling course. This book is a word of advice to responsible people incapable of doing it themselves. If you are responsible for someone's security but don't know how to fight or save them from assault, you hire someone for you. Now being a person who doesn't have the first idea on how to protect someone, how do you judge the new guy? How do you understand that this guy is the right choice? You need someone from inside the field to suggest you a good guy, right? This book is that guy from inside the area. There are aspects of cyber security that you can know the bare minimum of and still make the right choices, and there are people skills you must know a lot about to protect the good stuff you have. I hope this book finds the people who need it and vice versa.
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