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As you start to read about cybersecurity, especially articles trying to raise feelings of FUD, you will come across many examples of “war words” being used. Yes, we sort of have to use the words cyber attack, and cyber crime, but we don’t need to get into the rhetoric that Australian businesses are targeted and under attack from nation state ATP adversaries (just to throw all the buzzwords in there). Yes, there is some fact in these stories, but you can get the facts from elsewhere without having to read words that are really not helpful. When you come across these articles, just move on, and get some information in a much more friendly way.
Hacker Focused Words
If you are seeing articles about Advance Persistent Threats, Remote Code Execution, Zero Day, Command and Control move on. Yes, you may need to know these things if you are a cybersecurity professional, but leave it up to us to explain it when and if you need to. You have enough to think about with just getting the basics right before you need to be worried about Nation State Actors (hopefully).
Here’s a glossary if you are really interested though.
Legislation and Regulation
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