Polarization

Much has been written about the increasing polarization of American life. This trend has now come to cybersecurity. High-end practice is accelerating away from the low end. The best skills are now astonishingly good while the great mass of those dependent on cybersecurity are ever less able to even estimate what it is that they don´t know, much less act on it. This polarization is driven by the fundamental strategic asymmetry of cybersecurity, namely, that while the workfactor for the offender is the incremental price of finding a new method of attack, the workfactor for the defender is the cumulative cost of forever defending against all attack methods yet discovered.