The internet is still very much in beta

Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet said so himself. He was quoted in the book Fatal System Error:

"My thought at the time, thirty-five years ago, was not to build an ultra-secure system, because I could not tell if even the basic ideas would work. We never got to do the production engineering."

The protocols the original builders of the Internet developed focused almost exclusively on fault tolerance, they simply were not built for security and the net is one big buggy beta. Unfortunately, the bad guys know this full well, and are exploiting it to the limit. What this all means is that Web security is fundamentally broken.

This was all outlined in a short, but relevant, blog post from the folks at KnowBe4.

The balance of anonymity, security, net neutrality and freedom is difficult, if not impossible to achieve. Our entire global economy almost exclusively rests on the backbone and underpinnings of the public Internet. Innovation and efficiency have pushed our world further faster, with more connected sources. We are in effect more connected and closer to billions of people than ever before.

The upshot of all of this that you need to THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK, and step through some good quality security awareness training.

October 28th, 2016 |Categories: internet, KnowBe4, Security, Training

Recent Posts