INTRODUCTION
Humankind experiences some of its greatest disappointments and disasters when we fail to acknowledge the fundamentals of physics and chemistry. As we solve problems and improve technology, we must work with, not against, the foundation of the laws of mass, force, energy, and chemical reactions—laws that began with the cosmic big bang.
Like the physical world, cybersecurity has its own set of fundamentals: speed and connectivity. When organizations ignore these fundamentals, distracted by sophisticated marketing or new products, we suffer the consequences. We end up with solutions that solve only part of the problem or that simply stop working (or stop us from working when put to the test of real-world conditions).
That's partly because, to date, cybersecurity has been treated as a cost of doing business, as opposed to a foundational set of primitives and rules that are leveraged to achieve greater things. To build a cybersecurity foundation that will work now and continue to work in a world exponentially faster and more connected, we must start treating cybersecurity more like ...
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