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by Carolina A. Adaros Boye (Author)
This book is for everybody that wants to learn a little bit more about how cybersecurity is becoming more relevant in the connected world, both present and future.
As much as companies have increased their awareness about cybersecurity, not all of them are taking effective measures to protect themselves and their customers. Many "smart" things or "IoT" devices get connected every year, allowing the creation of more efficient and even new products and services. However, this also brings new risks, considering also that these type of systems present additional challenges for applying cybersecurity measures. This often leaves many doors open to malicious hackers
This book explains different ways how these systems get exposed to cyber-attacks in a friendly language using real cases as examples. Business professionals and nontechnical readers can bene t from this book by learning that cybersecurity is not an IT problem but an organizational problem. As a leader and decision maker, having an understanding of IoT cyberrisks can help you to improve the preparedness of your organization to prevent and deal with cyberattacks. Overall this book is for everybody that wants to learn a little bit more about how cybersecurity is becoming more relevant in the connected world, both present and future.
Author Biography
Carolina A. Adaros Boye is an electronics engineer from Vi-a del Mar, Chile. Her work experience includes industrial control and automation, IT quality models, process improvement, and consultancy in IT solutions. After her MSc in analytics and risk analysis in the University of Manchester, she was enthusiastic about risk management. In 2015, she started learning about cybersecurity, as a field that allowed the integration of different topics of her interest, and in 2017 she started doing her PhD in cybersecurity in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Her passion about this topic came from her career vocation to bring technology and business professionals closer. This motivated her to write several articles about cybersecurity management, published in 2018 in magazines such as IISP Pulse (UK) and Cibertime (Chile). In 2019, she moved to Germany to work in IoT incident and vulnerability management while continuing with her PhD research.
