full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Nadya Bartol: Better cybersecurity starts with honesty and accountability

Unscramble the Blue Letters


In a digitally interconnected wolrd, cyber risks are literally everywhere. For years, my colleagues and I have been talking about this elusive notion of cybersecurity culture. cuyitrsbcreey culture is when everybody in the organization believes that cybersecurity is their job, knows what to do and what not to do and does the right thing. Unfortunately, I can't tell you which companies do this well, because by doing so, I would put a juicy target on their backs for ambitious attackers. But what I can do is make cybersecurity less mysterious, bring it out into the open and talk about it. There should be no mystery or secrecy within an organization. When something is invisible and it's working, we don't know that it's there until it's not there. Kind of like toilet paper. When the COVID-19 pmaedinc baegn, what has been there all of a sdduen became super important because we couldn't find it anywhere. Cybersecurity is just like that: when it's wikrnog, we don't know, and we don't care. But when it's not working, it can be really, really bad.

Open Cloze


In a digitally interconnected _____, cyber risks are literally everywhere. For years, my colleagues and I have been talking about this elusive notion of cybersecurity culture. _____________ culture is when everybody in the organization believes that cybersecurity is their job, knows what to do and what not to do and does the right thing. Unfortunately, I can't tell you which companies do this well, because by doing so, I would put a juicy target on their backs for ambitious attackers. But what I can do is make cybersecurity less mysterious, bring it out into the open and talk about it. There should be no mystery or secrecy within an organization. When something is invisible and it's working, we don't know that it's there until it's not there. Kind of like toilet paper. When the COVID-19 ________ _____, what has been there all of a ______ became super important because we couldn't find it anywhere. Cybersecurity is just like that: when it's _______, we don't know, and we don't care. But when it's not working, it can be really, really bad.

Solution


  1. cybersecurity
  2. began
  3. working
  4. world
  5. sudden
  6. pandemic

Original Text


In a digitally interconnected world, cyber risks are literally everywhere. For years, my colleagues and I have been talking about this elusive notion of cybersecurity culture. Cybersecurity culture is when everybody in the organization believes that cybersecurity is their job, knows what to do and what not to do and does the right thing. Unfortunately, I can't tell you which companies do this well, because by doing so, I would put a juicy target on their backs for ambitious attackers. But what I can do is make cybersecurity less mysterious, bring it out into the open and talk about it. There should be no mystery or secrecy within an organization. When something is invisible and it's working, we don't know that it's there until it's not there. Kind of like toilet paper. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, what has been there all of a sudden became super important because we couldn't find it anywhere. Cybersecurity is just like that: when it's working, we don't know, and we don't care. But when it's not working, it can be really, really bad.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
security bugs 3
comfortable bringing 3
phishing link 2
good cybersecurity 2
cybersecurity culture 2
toilet paper 2
psychological safety 2
medical teams 2


Important Words


  1. ambitious
  2. attackers
  3. backs
  4. bad
  5. began
  6. believes
  7. bring
  8. care
  9. colleagues
  10. companies
  11. culture
  12. cyber
  13. cybersecurity
  14. digitally
  15. elusive
  16. find
  17. important
  18. interconnected
  19. invisible
  20. job
  21. juicy
  22. kind
  23. literally
  24. mysterious
  25. mystery
  26. notion
  27. open
  28. organization
  29. pandemic
  30. paper
  31. put
  32. risks
  33. secrecy
  34. sudden
  35. super
  36. talk
  37. talking
  38. target
  39. toilet
  40. working
  41. world
  42. years