Cybersecurity

The Five Laws Of Cybersecurity

Law No. 1: If There Is A Vulnerability, It Will Be Exploited

As I mentioned in my first article for Forbes: “Consider for a moment that when the first bank was conceived and built, there was at least one person out there who wanted to rob it.” In the more modern era, since the first “bug” was found in a computer, we’ve been looking for ways to bypass the framework or laws that govern a computer program, a device or even our society. Consider that there are those in our society who will try and hack everything within their capability. This could be obvious with more basic exploits, like the person who figured out how to obstruct their car’s license plate to go through a tollbooth for free, or the more obscure, such as infecting a complex computer system to derail an illegal nuclear weapons program. Finding ways around everything for both good and bad purposes is so ubiquitous today that we even have a term for it: “Life Hacking.”