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The Perfect Cybersecurity System is … The Human Body

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Let’s create the most perfect cybersecurity system. It will have natural physical defences against attacks, and which will filter out the good content from bad, and have defined entry and exit points, and which are paroled on a regular basis. The rest of the perimeter will have strong physical defences and paroles to detect any serious breaches. It will then defend against all the previously known attacks on the system, by using detection agents and then deploy specially created attack entities who will know exactly how to de-arm it and permanently delete any offending entities. There will be no hiding places for the attackers, as our defenders will search every place within the infrastructure.

And when new types of attack occur, the system will detect them when they show the signs of causing damage, and put up a mighty fight against the new attacker, and will win. In the battle we will lose some of our defences, but, in the end, all of the invaders will be killed off, even when they hide in valid-looking content. The battle will continue until every single invader has been removed, and where we will have new fighters which are specially created for the newly formed attack. The system will then remember these attacks and regroup the newly created fighters whenever required and will kill off the attackers whenever they arrive with their next attack.

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.