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Cover Quote: July 2019
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The most recent cybersecurity breaches grab our attention not just because they are breaking news, but also because there’s a strong sense that the older incidents, the ones that happened a few months ago — or, even worse, a few years ago — have nothing to teach us because they are already hopelessly out-of-date, and our adversaries have moved on to new tactics and technologies. Why waste time and resources learning how to defend against yesterday’s attacks in the face of constantly evolving threats? But not everything about these attacks is changing. Certainly, the technical details and exploits can shift rapidly as attackers adapt their methods to route around defensive upgrades and patches. But many of the nontechnical elements of these breaches have changed relatively little over the course of the past decade since the early days of large-scale data breaches and organized cybercrime. … Older security incidents offer a wealth of insight into how the current policy climate enables attackers’ pursuit of their end goals and how nontechnical lines of defense can be better tailored to address cybercrimes.
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- Josephine Wolff
You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late, 2018
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