Playing the infinite game with threat intelligence and cyber fusion - Help Net Security

Playing the infinite game with threat intelligence and cyber fusion - Help Net Security

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.


True wisdom, as Leo Tolstoy remarked, lies in acknowledging the fact that there will always be forces beyond our control and anticipation. As humans, we need to plan and respond to both what we know and what we don’t know. Unfortunately, the basic human tendency is to focus on what we know and discount the unknown. It is easy to be proactive and plan for the known, but for the unknown we are typically left to react and hope that the capabilities we have in place are adequate.


Interestingly, and particularly for the cybersecurity space, what tends to be most damaging is what comes from the unknown. Therefore, to best prepare for playing infinite threat intelligence cyber fusion security