the cybersecurity of fairytales

A few months back, Luca Viganò published this research paper on the usage of fairytales to explain cybersecurity concepts. This is well thought out and provides fantastic material for anyone who wishes to explain cyber to a non-technical audience.

[…]fairy tales represent cybersecurity archetypes in their simplest and barest form, and afford us (some of) the best clues to the understanding of the processes going on in the collective psyche of the cyberworld. Cybersecurity experts have developed solutions to cybersecurity problems that are similar to, and in some cases are simply the digital version of, the ones invented by fairy tale authors centuries before.

The Ali Baba and the 40 thieves fairytale provides plenty of good cyber analogies.