Executive’s Cybersecurity Program Handbook

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Network Security

The Internet is a series of tubes. —Senator Ted Stevens

When you think about it, Stevens is about half right, but the internet is so much more. The internet is Wi-Fi, fiber, e-commerce, banking, stock trading, social media, video calls, and now blockchains and the metaverse. The introduction of blockchain technology and Bitcoin brought about Web 3.0. This term was coined in 2014 by Gavin Wood, one of the founders of the Ethereum Foundation. Web 3.0 is very much alive today (at least at the time of writing), though it seems like we are at another transition point. Are we seeing the dawn of Web 4.0?

30 billion devices all connected to a medium that allows you to communicate with the other 30 billion devices on the internet causes ...