Academic Victoria Baines questions the imagery and rhetoric we use to communicate safety and security issues. Baines, a former law enforcement intelligence analyst, sees similarities between the language, rhetorical techniques and imagery that governments, vendors and criminals use to persuade us to do something. She says cybersecurity is rife with “fear, uncertainty and doubt” and how we can change the rhetoric of the whole industry. She emphasizes the need to “empower people and make them feel more capable, because they’re clearly capable of protecting themselves and others””]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/todays-security-rhetoric-harmful-must-change-a-18018