Cybersecurity First Principles
This book is the culmination of roughly 30 years of my experience working in the cybersecurity community. I arrived on the scene just as the Internet began to be useful to business, to academia, and to general-purpose government functions. You could say that I was there from the beginning. The current state of cybersecurity thinking is largely due to me and my peers trying to figure it out on the fly. We've made some great progress. We've also made some big mistakes, which is par for the course in any great adventure. Most of the mistakes get corrected over time with the people, process, and technology triad as we find new and better ways to accomplish certain tasks or realize that the method we were using to accomplish something wasn’t really working. The one mistake we haven’t corrected, though, is coming to some consensus about what all this effort is really about; the absolute cybersecurity first principle.