Cybersecurity

Full Title or Meme

The increase in cyber attacks and ransom-ware payments is increasing the demand for "experts" beyond the supply.

Context

• It seems that a snake-oil industry is in development to provider service for high costs beyond the capacity of the talent to respond.
• Cybernetics was described by Norbert Weiner before computers were anything more than a curiosity. It was not the source may any terms in English before very suspect activities like Bitcoin.

Problems

• New companies like Sentinel One start advertising on national television with no known track record. (2021-10-13 on NBC)
• Finding and fixing Cybersecurity breaches seems like an endless game of "Whack-a-Mole" where the more you whack them down, the faster that keep popping up.
• Caveat Emptor

Solutions

"The past 10 years have seen a move from R&D in purely defensive enterprise protection concepts to increasingly smart, autonomous, and reactive Cybersecurity research. This movement away from boundary protection and after-attack analysis, to proactive automonic systems has opened the door to new investigations and opportunities that are vital to future R&D."