Blog Digest Juli 2021

Blog Digest Juli 2021

These are the heated Cybersecurity Weeks

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on July 29, 2021
time to read: 6 minutes

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About the Author

Marc Ruef

Marc Ruef has been working in information security since the late 1990s. He is well-known for his many publications and books. The last one called The Art of Penetration Testing is discussing security testing in detail. He is a lecturer at several faculties, like ETH, HWZ, HSLU and IKF. (ORCID 0000-0002-1328-6357)

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