New CyberAttack Highlights Need for Investment in Digital Infrastructure and Economic Platforms

Another large scale cyber attack highlights the need for changes in the overall digital infrastructure and economic platforms. We are working with data infrastructure that is disjointed and not secure and will continue to struggle until we bump up to the next level (See Information Age Economic Platform). A recent increase of different types of attacks on important governmental and business entities seems to create a more dire situation of improving our data storage and infrastructure resilience (See Updated Infrastructure and Security). 

Short scope is that these are isolated pockets of cyber hunters trying to randomly gain information and resources from companies and got "lucky". Worse case scenario is that it is testing weaker companies in hopes of shutting down bigger industries in a coordinated manner (Gas, Food, Electric, SolarWinds, Etc..). I hope its not a perimeter/adaptation check but researchers might want to take a take a peak. 

Kind of makes you think one of these entities hit a "jack pot" of information somewhere and/or got good at obtaining data from multiple sources? or cross country coordination? 🤔 This is why we need more blockchain and dispersion of data into smaller pots. By the time someone hacked a number of pots (many of them are freelance businesses so they would have a pattern that reflects their entity)  there would be lots of data footprints (Unless you have the right sequence the guessing itself leaves a data point that can be traced back to the originator. I think I read that once in computer magazine. Probably would work? 🤷)

Countries like Russia and Iran have gotten really good at these hacks as "passive-aggressive" sort of ways of proxy fighting against a larger country like the U.S. Its also cheap and effective from a military standpoint. China is also good at hacking but their ideology seems to be much different and they are more "purest" in their philosophical driven behaviors. It does tell us we need a new generation of cyberwarriors and extended network coalitions in the cyber world. That also doesn't begin to discuss the need to innovate not only our military but also next generation manufacturing, space exploration and a whole host of other industries to stay ahead. (New Military Honor Codes Ok I read a lot..sorry 🤓). 

I'm not a cyber expert but my generation was one of the first adaptors of the Internet for widescale use (Kind of weird growing up with no air conditioning, chalk boards and pull down maps and then leap forward a few decades to biocyber, robotics and this stuff. Yikes! The new generation knows nothing of the old ways except what was in the books. Gosh! I'm Old!😬) and we made rap, breakdancing, and early techno cool. We were after the polyester era (side note I hear polyester pollutes alot).