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What Is Cybersecurity

Start your cybersecurity journey with foundational articles that explain what cybersecurity is, why it matters, and how it protects people and organizations. Our content covers core concepts, common threat types, essential terminology, and an overview of the cybersecurity landscape for beginners.

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Cybersecurity Definition: What It Really Means in 2021

Colonial Pipeline just paid a $4.4 million ransom to get its systems back online, shutting down fuel delivery across the U.S. East Coast for nearly a week. If you searched for a cybersecurity definition expecting a clean, academic sentence, this incident should tell you everything textbooks leave out.

Carl B. Johnson May 18, 2021 6 min read
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