Show Notes
Can a book hold the answers to our cybersecurity challenges? Perhaps not. But a new book from the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, sets out to act as a primer on cybersecurity. The target audience is both those setting out on a career in the sector, or general readers who want to understand the core principles of cybersecurity. The book is called Cyber Security Foundations: Fundamentals, Technology and Society, published by Kogan Page. In this episode, we ask three of it authors how it came into being, and how a written text can keep pace with a fast-changing security landscape.
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