03. The Security Mindset

The Security Mindset

Summary

Cybersecurity is an art as well as a science. It’s the ability to understand the past and current trends to better understand the future.
It’s about being curious, tenacious, and always learning, which means developing your security mindset.

In March 2008, security pundit Bruce Schneier blogged about the security mindset.
Security professionals look at the world differently. When they walk into a store, airport, or museum, they naturally look for security guards and cameras. It’s the same on computers where they look for vulnerabilities and error messages to better understand how the technology works. They try to figure out how security can be bypassed to better understand how it can be strengthened.

In developing your intuition about cybersecurity, consider three mantras.

• Trust, but verify.
• Stop.Think.Connect.
• If you see something, say something.

Throughout this course and your life, continually be building your security mindset and developing your security intuition.

QUESTION:

In the box below, consider how you are building your security mindset and intuition. What steps will you take to be cyber-smart? Use the three sayings to develop your answer.