Comments on: Cybergeddon … Ho Hum http://www.bloginfosec.com/2010/03/29/cybergeddon-%e2%80%a6-ho-hum/ An Information Security Magazine in a Blog Format Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kenneth F. Belva http://www.bloginfosec.com/2010/03/29/cybergeddon-%e2%80%a6-ho-hum/comment-page-1/#comment-20300 Kenneth F. Belva Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:27:57 +0000 http://www.bloginfosec.com/?p=1418#comment-20300 Great point about something terrible needed to happen before anything is done: our government system is by and large a reactionary one rather than a proactive one. When it comes to preventing catastrophic issues we have major obstacles unless the threat is imminent. Unfortunately the "invisibleness" and complexity of cyber security lends itself to never seeming like a threat (unless one is one the front lines witnessing the attacks). In regards to the Y2K syndrome, I wrote something similar about general H1N1, InfoSec and human behavior here: http://www.bloginfosec.com/2010/01/27/h1n1-threat-overblown-information-security-relevance-a-logic-proof/ Great point about something terrible needed to happen before anything is done: our government system is by and large a reactionary one rather than a proactive one. When it comes to preventing catastrophic issues we have major obstacles unless the threat is imminent. Unfortunately the “invisibleness” and complexity of cyber security lends itself to never seeming like a threat (unless one is one the front lines witnessing the attacks). In regards to the Y2K syndrome, I wrote something similar about general H1N1, InfoSec and human behavior here:

http://www.bloginfosec.com/2010/01/27/h1n1-threat-overblown-information-security-relevance-a-logic-proof/

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