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Securewashing

:imparting a false impression of cyber resilience through unsubstantiated claims to deceive an organization into thinking they are protected from attacks

: the act of servicing generic compliance frameworks or hollow certifications with minimal effort or results in order to convey a false impression of security
Hackers broke into the company's servers because management used compliance frameworks as a securewashing instead of actually improving their security.
by Improsec A/S September 2, 2022
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