No Safe Harbour: The Inside Truth About Cybercrime, and How to Protect Your Business, reviewed

Review of No Safe Harbour: The Inside Truth About Cybercrime, and How to Protect Your Business by Mark Sangster, see more on his website here.

Stories of massive data breaches litter the 24-hour news day headlines. A who’s who of banks, retailers, law firms, and healthcare organizations are affected by hackers and cybercrime syndicates. These companies, however, are often those with the most sophisticated technological systems in place, designed to stop crime before it starts. So how and why do cybercriminals continue to breach their ranks? And how can smaller companies with fewer resources at hand protect themselves?

The story of digital crime told by cyber security expert Mark Sangster is one that hasn’t been told before: one in which the key to changing the locks isn’t in our computers, but in our corporate culture. Sangster deftly weaves together real-life criminal cases in a thrilling narrative that illustrates the human complexities behind the scenes that can directly result in an open door to threats.

Within a security context, deep social engineering is the newest and biggest means of breaching our systems. Sangster shows readers that, in a world where the notion of truth is evaporating, organizations need to shift the security discussion away from technology gates alone toward a focus on leadership, team behaviors, and mutual support.

No Safe Harbour: The Inside Truth About Cybercrime, and How to Protect Your Business, reviewed

This is a short, punchy, thoughtful and provocative book. Sangster walks you through a series of real world scenarios that are very real, risky and need to be considered. He maps out the challenges in an accessible and understandable way. Forewarned is very much forearmed and the insights are useful, as well as the risks identified being plausible.

The book covers a range of scenarios, some real, some hypothetical, but all plausible, and well worth considering, and trying to prevent happening to your company. Sangster clearly knows his subject matter, and it is presented in a readable and informative way. The title may be a little depressing, but far better to increase your company security to ensure that it is not trivial for your assets, important documents and hardware are easily accessible or hackable. A useful book to have on your bookshelf.

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