Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity

Why Take9 Will Not Improve Cybersecurity – Pixel Envy

Bruce Schneier and Arun Vishwanath, Dark Reading: There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people — you, me, everyone — should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to share. There’s a website — of course — and a video, well-produced and scary. But the campaign won’t do much to improve cyb…

Why Take9 Won't Improve Cybersecurity - Schneier on Security

There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to share. There’s a website—of course—and a video, well-produced and scary. But the campaign won’t do much to improve cybersecurity. The advice isn’t reasonable, it won’t make eith…

Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity

There’s a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to share. There’s a website—of course—and a video, well-produced and scary. But the campaign won’t do much to improve cybersecurity. The advice isn’t reasonable, it won’t make eith…