As I’ve mentioned lately, cybersecurity is dependent on humans. Much of that revolves around human behavior and how cybercriminals prey on our mistakes, laziness, and dedication to multi-tasking. Yet, there are other areas where humans directly affect cybersecurity; one is communication.
I sat in on a session at the Enfuse 2017 conference called “Can I Get a Translation?” The discussion centered around the need for legal departments and the IT or security teams to speak the same language when talking about cybersecurity.
One of the problems is that IT and legal have different interests, the panel explained. Legal, for example, is looking for potential smoking guns in the data, but that’s not IT or the security team’s goal. But if that data isn’t stored or protected correctly, you know which department is going to get blamed, right?
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