Gleicher: Cybersecurity defenders will eventually balance out attacker advantages
Nathaniel Gleicher · a16z Podcast | Changing the Conversation about Cybersecurity · Jan 2, 2019 · at 16:48
Nathaniel Gleicher, cybersecurity expert and former NSC official, draws parallels between historical military innovations and the evolution of cybersecurity defense.
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“If you look historically at technologies that have upended conflict and made it much easier to be an attacker than a defender, there are any number of these throughout history, from armor in World War II to gunpowder in sort of the 16th century in Europe, and in each one, you have a radical period of instability, and then you have a group of defenders that get together and figure out how to fix the balance and move things back, and each time when they do that, It's because they think about understanding and controlling the environment, and they deploy these same tactics. And so, I'm incredibly confident we'll get there, because any of you look historically at the path, we do get there.”
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