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Hacking the human has three main parts. The first part analyzes social engineering methods and practices. The second part is the world of professional nation-state espionage and their intelligence agencies. The third analyzes insider threats, physical security, and mitigation methods bearing in mind the global skills gap in ICT with people widely recognized as the weakest link in the cyber security fence. In so doing it considers spear phishing and human intelligence, outsider and insider threats, the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability triad, Computer Emergency Response Teams, and industry and government-backed self-help groups.
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Stoddart, K. (2022). Hacking the Human. In: Cyberwarfare. Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97299-8_5
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