Conclusion

Abstract

Our professional intersection with—and investment in—the material we try to condense and describe in this book goes much deeper than our somewhat removed role as authors. We do hope that here we’ve been able to offer an easily digestible, essentially linear (entertaining?) framework for both understanding and, even more important, contending with emergent and constantly evolving threats to end users’ data security. Broad consumption of even some of the cautions we offer, by sophisticated non-techies trying to function in an environment where the rules of play—and even the game itself—are constantly in flux, has potential to stem some of the truly mind-boggling data and security losses we’ve all read about and unfortunately even experienced first-hand.