Cybersecurity and Theology
The connection between cybersecurity and theology might not seem all that obvious. I might not have thought of it myself, if I weren't teaching the first and studying the second. But, it is there. I discovered it thinking about social engineering and the ways threat actors try to manipulate their targets in order to make them victims. In short, a social engineer works on a target through a combination of fear, greed, and misplaced trust to abuse that trust and our compliant tendencies. Threat actors try to create fear in order to panic us and make us more reactive and less reflective. Threat actors play on our greed for the same reason, I suppose. They try to abuse our trust by sending emails which look mostly legitimate or by redirecting us to websites which might look real if we don't look at the edges too closely. User education is one of our basic defensive strategies because users who've been trained (or perhaps authorized and encouraged) to operate with a certain heal...