MikeDiscussions about cybersecurity overwhelmingly focus on the recent, which are our responses to the design and engineering decisions of the past. We are right to […]
Category: Reform
The Global Ungoverned Area
Looking at the Internet through Westphalian-tinted glasses is not going to make us safer or more secure.
Cyber War: The Fastest Way to Improve Cybersecurity?
It is still a struggle to get people and organizations to take cybersecurity seriously. A cyberspace-based conflict may be the most likely way for us to make progress.
C.R.E.A.M. IoT Edition
We can go round and round about what’s going to drive improvements in computer security writ large, but when you boil it down it’s really only about one of and/or two things: money and bodies.
The Wolf is Here
This week we learned that those shepherd boys crying ‘wolf’ all those years weren’t playing us for fools, they were just too early.
Save Yourself – Delete Your Data
If an era when remedying computer security failures is cheaper than calling in computer security experts is even remotely realistic, we need to collectively get on board with some new ways of doing things.
We Learn From Death
Cybersecurity will get better when people die in sufficiently large numbers.
Good Cyber Security is Not Glamorous
Advancing cyber security starts with promulgating the message that like most things in life: success is about the grind.
Intelligence Agencies Are Not Here to Defend Your Enterprise
The way to reduce the chance that someone can crack your computer code is to write better code, and test it faster than the spooks can.
The Airborne Shuffle in Cyberspace
We can and should be doing far more than we apparently are, because I guarantee our adversaries are.