Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk®: Practical Solutions for Creating a Sustainable Cyber Program

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R. LeirvikUnderstand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk®https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9319-5_2

2. Why Is It Complicated?

Ryan Leirvik¹  

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Arlington, VA, USA

 

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Abstract

Technology’s imperfections are where the cybersecurity problem begins, exposing attractive perforations in its intended functionality. Deploy imperfect technology imperfectly, and these unintended perforations multiply in innumerable ways. Layer imperfect technologies into existing technologies, each with perpetual pursuits to communicate and interact with interoperable counterparts, ...