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# Cybersecurity, a horse with no name
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/cybersecurity-a-horse-with-no-name/
- Published: 2015-10-22T15:19:57.000Z
- Updated: 2015-10-22T15:19:57.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Uncategorized, cyber-weapons, cybersecurity, immutability, Observer Research Foundation, Sony Pictures hack, Stuxnet, territoriality, Wassenaar Arrangement, zero-day hacks, #Migrated-1787483357778, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:09

![A cybersecurity visualisation tool at the Idaho National Laboratory. Credit: inl/Flickr, CC BY 2.0](https://gravitysshadow.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/a9d54-9bcb1-7895742584_3bb1a1679d_k.jpg)

Credit: inl/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Excerpt:

> Cybersecurity sounds like it could be that horse, in the form of IT infrastructure to effectively defend against the desert of cyber-weaponry, except we've probably only just seen a foal. When software is weaponised and used in cyber-attacks, we’re confronted with a threat we’ve not fully understood yet and which we’re in no real position to understand, let alone effectively defend against. At the same time, even in this inchoate form, cyber-weapons are posing threats that we better defend against or risk the shutdown of critical services. The only clear way forward seems to be of survival, on an *ad hoc* basis. Not surprisingly, the key to understanding cybersecurity’s various challenges for its innumerable stakeholders lies in knowing what a cyber-weapon, a peril of the desert, is.  
>  
> We don't know.

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