Securing The Internet
Internet Security is a peculiar dilemma. It’s extremely hard and an unenviable task. But also embarrassing to repeatedly get caught napping or behind the eight ball in a constantly evolving threat landscape. As nations and corporations grapple with novel threats and an explosion of entities hooked to the internet, they awaken daily to the reality of its uphill battle.
Asymmetric War
There is no such thing as getting security just right. Our best defenses today may prove woefully insufficient tomorrow. There is an inherent asymmetry in defending against the digital dark arts. Whereas a rogue actor can get away targeting the weakest link in the chain of cybersecurity, the task of securing the internet gets inordinately hard. The realization that there will always be a weak link is unsettling. A cybersecurity chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Adi Shamir, the Turing Award recipient and the co-creator of the famed RSA encryption algorithm, couched this golden nugget into a quote:
Cryptography is typically bypassed, not penetrated — Adi Shamir
Teachable
The recent episode is poignant. It is instructive for me as an IT professional who takes security seriously. The…
