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Re-Thinking User Protection
The Missing Chapter Of Security: Creating The `Engel-Schultz` — Guarding Human Safety And Sanity
Tools are passive, hard-to-use and manual. No matter how well made, are specific and not adaptive. By the time you learn them, opportunities are lost. Data comes in all sorts of formats and forms. It is hard to work with them. People don’t know how to help themselves with tools and data. There is limited to no means to check if the data is real and correct. All these weakens the posture of the user to help themselves or even protect themselves when the tools and facilities are so much against them.
Users have been targeted, profiled, and have their credentials stolen, collected which mount to accounts taken over and/or fake profiles created or cloned in the form of their shadows. To ensure threat modeling aligns with business goals and objectives, understand the business requirements and identify potential threats that can hinder the business from achieving its goals. Examine how attackers can conduct abuse and misuse of services within the ecosystem. In this article, we examine on how to protect our users from being compromised.
Safety must form a faculty of scientific discipline of its own.