Discussion
In the end, cybersecurity will have to continue to evolve and get more sophisticated to meet the new challenges of tomorrow. It's never going to get easier; old problems will be solved, but innovation will create new problems.
That's why it's your responsibility to remain abreast of the latest trends, and ensure your organization isn't falling behind the times. Your cyber defenses will be eclipsed by bad actors if you don't diligently follow what's happening in our world. You'll need to rise to the occasion when disaster strikes, and learn to prevent such events from happening in the future.
The risks of interconnectivity
IoT is changing the rules of cybersecurity. Both Barmak and Cleve highlight the fact that, in the recent past, there were fewer attack surfaces. Since the age of mainframes gave way to client-server computing and the internet, we saw a steady increase in attack surfaces. Today, IoT is only further accelerating...