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Well, I like to think I fought the good fight. I mean, I’m an old fart. Old habits die hard, and for the longest time I just kept using the term I was used to, even though it was politically incorrect. After all, I held on to other ideas that I believed were morally superior, only to watch them get discredited by the new-think, by people that didn’t know what was right was right, and what was wrong was wrong.<\/p>\n
Eventually, though, I caved. I started using the updated politically correct term. People no longer looked at me funny, they no longer made fun of the way that I talk. As for my discredited ideas, well, I kept them to myself, lest I be made fun of. After all, in today’s world, you have to use the right terms and speak the right way and think the right things.<\/p>\n
Right?<\/p>\n
But then, of course, a new term came in for what I previously knew. I resisted, because resistance is good. After all, the new term was, to put it bluntly, stupid. It was idiotic. It didn’t refer to what they said it referred. But I forgot my Star Trek. Resistance is futile.<\/p>\n
OK, “cyber<\/strong>“. You win. I mean, HelpNet even says as much<\/a>.<\/p>\n I grew up in an era when it was “Computer Security<\/strong>” and COMPUSEC<\/strong>, when we believed we could write multi-level secure systems that provided high assurance. What did we get for our efforts? perl<\/a>, and a High Assurance Brake Job<\/a>.<\/p>\n Then it became “Information Assurance<\/strong>” and “Information Security<\/strong>“. A1 systems<\/a>? Sorry, but A1 was reserved for steak.\u00a0 Multi-level systems? They were for special uses; no one would write a general purpose MLS operating system. Formal Methods? Never in your wildest dreams — that’s Gypsy talk<\/a>. Ina know about you, but I need some Jo<\/a>.<\/p>\n But now? We have Cybersecurity<\/strong> and Cyber<\/strong> and Trustworthiness<\/strong>. We’ve lost the war. Here’s what HelpNet has to say:<\/p>\n We have lost the cyber war. No, not that<\/strong> cyber war. Maybe war of words<\/em> is a better way to put it. Whether we like it or not, cyber<\/em> has become the default way for everyone else to talk about what we do.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n It\u2019s tempting to take the moral high ground and refuse to engage with cyber<\/em>. Instead, we could choose to refer only to information security because we believe it accurately reflects both physical documents as well as digital assets, while giving importance to each one.<\/p>\n It\u2019s fair to say that some of the industry\u2019s suspicion about cyber<\/em> comes from the fact that it\u2019s broad enough to cover the charlatans in the industry who think there\u2019s a buck to be made by scaring people into stocking up on silver bullets instead of informing them in a responsible way about how security can help them to do business better.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n But if you open a dictionary, you\u2019ll find cybersecurity is the only term of its kind. One survey ranked information security<\/em> as the least popular term among the general public, even lower than e-security<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n e-Security? Well, at least I can be thankful that term didn’t win.<\/p>\n e-Security? Sheeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I like to think I fought the good fight. I mean, I’m an old fart. Old habits die hard, and for the longest time I just kept using the term I was used to, even though it was politically incorrect. After all, I held on to other ideas that I believed were morally superior, Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12864,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions\/12864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}