There IS No Cyber Defense
By Bryson Bort
| July 31, 2018
There is a general principle driving the massive cybersecurity ecosystem that has flourished from the beginning: the necessary trade-off in balancing ease of deployment, the simplicity of operation, stability, and efficacy. While the entire ecosystem is predicated on constraints inherent in the foundational architecture, most in the defender community do not realize or understand what these are. Reliance on flawed fundamental assumptions from what worked years ago has led us to a deeply entrenched, but intrinsically vulnerable environment that is continually compromised by an endless number of exploits. Exploitation occurs in an infinite space that is unsolvable. We are building skyscrapers on quicksand, yet are surprised when they fall.
There IS No Cyber Defense