One Click And You're Done: An essential guide to cyber security that every tech user needs to read

by Colin Durrant

An essential, easy to read guide to cyber security that every tech user needs to read to stay safe online. This is a book on cybersecurity for beginners. This will go a long way to explaining in an easy to read format about cybersecurity and cyberwar. Hacking school discipline book, it is so critical that everyone is cybersecurity aware including children and teachers. For children, they will be living in the world for the rest of their lives. The more they can get into cybersecurity and cyberwarfare and be safe, the better. Books like cybersecurity for dummies 2020 have similar goals in educating computer users in the dangers online. We live in a very different world than we did 5 or 10 years ago. Today, there are thousands of bad actors (hackers) whose day job is to make money by hacking technology users. Their target may be individuals or companies. They may be part of a group, working alone or paid by their Government. They may send out millions of phishing emails, hoping to trap lots of victims, or they may carry out a very specific, well thought out and planned attack, targeted at a single company or individual. Their reasons may be for financial gain, to cause chaos, for political motives or simply because they can.The results are generally the lost money, disaster, catastrophe and embarrassment. In a nutshell, PAIN. To prevent said pain, the first step is to educate yourself and get an understanding of the real threat that exists, understand how you can protect yourself and implement a game plan. This book will go a long way to helping you achieve this. However, remember that technology and threats are consistently evolving so what you learn today will greatly help you but could be superseded by a brand new threat tomorrow.

97 pages, Paperback

Published May 6, 2019

About the author

Colin was born and grew up in Rhodesia (Which became Zimbabwe in 1980). He worked for a large computer company in a technical role. However, with the steady decimation of Zimbabwe’s economy and currency, Colin was lucky enough to enter the UK in early 1999. Don’t worry; this wasn’t via a small boat.

Colin has a love of sport and started triathlon and cycle racing at the age of 15. He went on to represent Zimbabwe in triathlon at the junior level. He remains a keen athlete to this day, having raced several Ironman over the last few years. He still enjoys cycling, bodybuilding, and open-water swimming. Colin loves the challenge of swimming in freezing cold water during the winter months.

He always loved reading and writing, but this never blossomed while he was young. He was greatly inspired by Wilbur Smith, read every book he wrote, and even met him in Bristol (UK). Another hint to his love of writing surfaced while at school and training with his cycling buddies. Colin would write humorous accounts about their training sessions, and everyone who read them was thoroughly entertained.

Shortly after arriving in the UK, Colin set up his first computer support company. He has run several of these ever since. Colin has been in the cyber security arena since 1999, which he finds fascinating, leading him to write a book on educating non-technical people on cyber security threats. Since then, he has found a love of writing, and another book on cybersecurity is due to be released very soon.

Reviews

[Colinofski · Rating 5 out of 5]

For me, this was very clear and concise and had some really good information. I did find it really eye opening because there are things I never even thought about that now I have learnt. Personally, I would highly recommend this book for you to read. It is very educational and slightly scary as well to be honest.