"Never click on a URL again, you can be sure it won't go wrong." This week's work professor guest is Marianne Junger, Professor of Cyber Security and Business Continuity at the University of Twente. Never clicking on a link again is obviously not a realistic tip, but it would be a solution. What tips are feasible though and what behavior is behind them?
Marianne Junger takes us another step further into the world of Cyber Security. The remarkable thing is actually that there is a lot we don't know yet and have very few figures. "If you look at figures on burglary we know a lot, but on this subject we keep much less." This is one of the issues Marianne is working hard for, so the message to business owners is clear: report if you have had to deal with Cyber Crime.
Prevention is better than cure
In the podcast with Rutger Leukfeldt, numerous tips for preventing Cybercrime have already been provided. Marianne adds some more tips and stresses the importance of prevention in the podcast. Once you have been hacked or attacked, it is very difficult to solve the problem. You also don't always know if, for example, paying a sum of money will solve your problems.
We ignore the warning
"We haven't properly learned how to shape prevention yet," that's where the core of the problem is, according to Marianne. Part of it has to do with the number of reports and warnings we get, which again, maybe this podcast contributes to. Marianne explains the importance of thinking about alerts. If we continually get alerts but don't see that there's really a problem we're going to ignore them, that's normal. The solution is twofold: give alerts only when it is realistic and relevant and share information about hacks and problems when they occur. With those things the sense of urgency can be increased.
Links
Find more about Marianne Junger here
Podcast episode with Rutger Leukfeldt
How safe are you on the Internet?
Contact
Do you have questions or input? Please contact Wendy van Ierschot at wendy@viepeople.com.
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