Monday, October 24, 2016

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month!



Cyber Security is a Shared Responsibility

At Cyberwyze, we feel both privileged and obligated to join our nation in highlighting the importance of the safety of our sensitive information online and offline during the 2016 national cyber security awareness month.

Enough, Already!!!

Shhhhhhhh!!!  Sometimes, silence is safety! 

As a nation, we need to be wise with the information we put out in cyberspace, yes, it is very American to be open and transparent; that is what makes us an open society and free. But we must know that the sensitive information that we throw out in the cyberspace for all Americans, who has the right to them to see, are all also accessible to our enemies who would use those information to harm us. We all know that the element of surprise is crucial in warfare, there cannot be an element of surprise without silence or privacy. In this largely asymmetric warfare, sometimes, perhaps more often than not, we need to be seen not heard, seen taking action, not just talking and tipping our adversaries off on what we are going to do or expressing weakness by constantly bemoaning what has been done to us.  We have to keep our mouths sealed sometimes, if not most of the times, if we want to succeed in the cyber warfare that we are in. Period!  

In the midst of what seems, almost a daily occurrence of security breaches, we, as a nation of innovators and visionaries, need to urgently change our strategies in the cyber warfare.  Primarily, we need to stop arming the adversaries with our careless handling of sensitive national information. For example, just because we have open government provisions, such as FOIA, does not mean that the information acquired through those provisions are less sensitive and does not require protection. We are shooting ourselves on the foot, in fact, jeopardizing our national security, and essentially waging losing cyber warfare.  Our government leaders have to understand that we are living in a global environment, and that any information put out on the Internet is not restricted to the consumption of American citizens alone, but to the whole world, both friends and foes.  Those who are in war don’t divulge information that could aid the enemy.  What we are doing is counter-productive, people!  

Let’s learn to protect ourselves by keeping our sensitive information safe; it is not such a great idea to put it out there for the whole world to see, if we want to overcome in this unrelenting and ferocious cyber warfare, else we are toast!  What will it be, folks?  

Talk Less, Act More!!!



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