The Public Perception Of CyberSecurity Sucks: It's Time To Point Some Fingers | Redefining Security With Christophe Foulon And James Azar

There it is again: another story about a massive company breach and loss of sensitive data. Whoopy-doo! Moving on. We can only hear about those pesky "hackers" so many times.

But... wait a minute! There's a serious problem here that's being overlooked continuously — it's NOT "hackers" that are doing these dastardly deeds and causing this continuous barrage of headlines. No. It's not. The culprits behind these attacks that lead to loss of data, money, and perhaps even life are "cybercriminals."

The misuse of the labels is just the beginning of this problem, however. It is also the cheap stock image of a faceless person wearing a black hoodie, gloves, and ski goggles, a clickbait headline that creates fear for your own existence, and the lack of real in-depth stories after you click — yep, the headline was pretty much the whole story — that makes this an even more essential and crucial conversation.

We have endless headlines designed to get us to click on a publication's links. We have an overabundance of stories telling us something terrible occurred. We have countless ambulance chasers hypothesizing over how something happened as they carefully weave their own story into the mix in an attempt to be a "thought" leader on the subject as a means to get you to buy their wares.

It's a vicious cycle of nothingness that ultimately leads to breach fatigue, cyber-apathy, and an inability to do something meaningful about the problem.

This needs to be discussed if the situation is going to change, and we decide to do just that. We invited two friends, experts, podcasters to talk about all of this. There's no holding back here.

But, in the spirit of changing the conversation, there's also some excellent examples to shed some positive light on as we hope to demonstrate some signs of progress that we can move forward to a better place with this.

Perhaps, despite all we have become accustomed (numb) to, we are getting better at this. 

Sure, let's stay positive and all work together in educating the masses, the businesses, the politicians, and most importantly, the future generations.

Guests
James Azar, CISO and Podcast Host, CyberHub Podcast/CISO Talk (@cyberhubpodcast on Twitter)

Christophe Foulon, Cybersecurity Career Coach, CPF-coaching.com | Podcast Co-Host/Founder, Breaking into Cybersecurity Podcast (@chris_foulon on Twitter)

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Resources
Breaking into CyberSecurity: https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakingIntoCybersecurity

CISO Talk, The CyberHub Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ciso-talk/id1370547543

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