Cyber security is not a war! Wars have specific enemies, defined objectives, and eventually Is won or lost. After a war the survivors can pick up the pieces and go back to their old way of life -- sort of. Cyber security is more like fighting crime. The perpetrators are all around us and sometimes we are our own worst enemy (we get suckered in by scams, neglect security updates, fail to keep our guard up). There is no win or lose. The best we can do is to keep the level of the conflict at tolerable levels.


If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

— Albert Einstein