3The History of Cybersecurity

DOI: 10.4324/9781003052616-4

The Stellar Evolution of Cybersecurity. The evolutionary processes of stars depend upon their initial mass. The evolutionary processes of cybersecurity depend upon the hyperconvergence of Cyber Dependencies, People, Processes, and Technology.

Ludmila Morozova-Buss, International Cybersecurity Woman Influencer of the Year

The 60s—feds, tech, and computers

The only ones focused on computers in the 1960s were the federal government. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense funded research into time-sharing of computers in the 1960s, and this led to the creation of the internet. No—Al Gore did not invent it.

Packet sharing research led ...

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