Why nothing is working in cyber security? Solving the Security Problem: Mission Impossible – Cyber Securities Book of Revelations.
I spend a fair amount of time in my current role thinking about future cyber-attacks. Some folks may call this “threat modeling” or even “cyber threat intelligence.” I recently had several revelations about cyber security which although not as nearly as spectacular as say the Book of Revelation written by Saint John of Patmos, are worthy of recording and talking about.
Revelation 1: “I’m from the government and I am here to help.”
It appears to me that most western governments are hypocritical when it comes to cyber security. On one hand, a lot of government organizations and funded projects seeks to strengthen cyber security defenses. On the other hand, those very same government organizations are calling for encryption backdoors and within the intelligence and law enforcement communities, hell-bent on eroding an enshrined right to privacy. This duplicity is understandable.
Nation-state motivations regarding cyber-crime are questionable at best and a conspiracy at worst. The Ouroboros or uroborus (/ˌ(j)ʊərəˈbɒrəs, uːˈrɒbərɒs/) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its tail – this describes the essence of the problem.
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts global spending on cybersecurity products and services will exceed $1 trillion cumulatively over the five years from 2017 to 2021. No nation-state has the desire nor-motivation to put a 1 trillion-dollar industry – built on cybercrime activity – at risk. The conclusion is we can expect very little in the way of impactful action aga ..
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