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Cybersecurity Basics

Foundational cybersecurity knowledge for beginners and anyone looking to strengthen core security habits. Posts cover essential topics like strong password creation, software updates, recognizing social engineering attacks, securing home networks, and understanding common threat types.

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What Is Cybersecurity

What Is Cybersecurity? A Practitioner's Real-World Guide

The Question Everyone Asks After the Breach In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered its way past the help desk with a single phone call. The attackers didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. They called IT, pretended to

Carl B. Johnson Feb 22, 2019 7 min read
Define Cyber

Define Cyber: What It Really Means in 2026

A Two-Billion-Dollar Word Nobody Can Explain In 2023, the SEC adopted new cybersecurity disclosure rules requiring every public company to report material cyber incidents within four business days. Boards scrambled. Legal teams panicked. And a surprising number of executives asked the same question behind closed doors: what does "cyber&

Carl B. Johnson Feb 02, 2019 6 min read