A Little Cyber Puzzle …

We were interviewing a while back for a research post, and I asked the candidate — as a starting point for a deeper question — about the number of bytes that are typical used to store an integer on a computer. “Is it one?”, “Nope”, I said. “Is is none?”, “Definitely, not”, I said. “Well, I don’t know”.

To me, the core understanding of cybersecurity should start at the lowest level, and work up. If you don’t understand how data is actually stored and processed … with little-endians and big-endians, and in bits and bytes— then it’s equivalent to a bridge engineer not knowing about how the…