All departments of an organization need to be on the same page where cybersecurity is concerned, and that will only happen if the terminology used is understood by all.
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Things work better when everyone is on the same page, and that includes the ability to discuss a topic using language that imparts the same meaning to all.
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There’s a party game—Whisper Down the Lane, known in some places as Telephone or Gossip—that illustrates what happens when words and their meanings are misinterpreted. People are in a circle, and someone whispers a secret to the person next to them. That person passes the secret on to the person next to them and so on until it gets back to the first individual, and—more often than not—the secret is very different.
In party games, it’s funny, but in the world of cybersecurity, not interpreting a comment or document as intended by the originator can spell disaster. The 2020 Global Risk Study by…
