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Stopping Self-Driving Cars From Becoming Cybersecurity Weapons

We often forget that behind every cyberattack there are human beings, not computers. They design, they reconnaissance, they devise a plan of infiltration, they construct a command and control system. Human beings make mistakes and they consistently behave in a certain way. This calls for a new approach to cybersecurity: Identify specific behaviors and intentions of specific attackers, construct their “digital signature”—their unique patterns of behavior, make behavioral science an important aspect of cyber defense. Without understanding the attackers, “you will never be a good defender,” says Diskin.