DB 13: How should we approach the development of cyber-policy and -infrastructure given the “short arm” of predictive knowledge?

The cyber policy regulates all aspects of digital data exchange, including the Internet, data privacy, and network usage. Cyber policies also tend to cover gaps in knowledge that we may have primarily because of how fast technology develops and evolves. Because of how fast technology evolves, companies often have to play catch up. Policies can help protect a company from malicious actors and other outsider threats that would cause them to have data breaches or act. However, it can be not easy to develop policies for a field that is constantly changing over the years and not exactly knowing what is to come until it has already happened. This is referred to as the “short arm” of predictive knowledge. Every company needs to have specific policies in place to protect various assets of their company. However, every time a policy is put into place, it needs to be updated and revised immediately. An example that comes to mind is when viruses started to evolve more, there’s more danger and more to lose if a company is hacked.

In my opinion, the way a company should approach this situation that the company needs to remain ever watchful and vigilant when it comes to making backup or strategy plans for their company; if they get complacent or outdated, hackers can easily commit data breaches. You can see this happening now with multiple companies being hacked because they don’t update their policies and remain unprotected. On the other hand, when companies have a good backup policy, they may not update their central security policy. This is because they believe that they will be safe from the fall out of a data breach and shave thousands off of the over-lining yearly budget. Examples being Apple who, for the last three years, has routinely been hacked by malicious actors.