Journal Entry #13

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

To try to predict the future of where the cyber world is going you will end up spending more time taking care of possible issues than taking care of a actual issue. Using a day-to-day approach will make sure that all efforts are taken to fix the current issues. While taking care of immediate threats you can find small steps to fix some future issues and it may open the door to fix such issues but diving too deep into the guess work of predicting the future may lead overlooking big issues that are current. Setting up updates that are more constant to fix current issues will increase the time to make further advancements. The short arm of predictive knowledge is the idea that when you are developing cyber policy you can be prepared for instances of updating new cyber policy such as a new firewall or a new attack method hackers are using due to the fact that the cyber world is ever evolving. So in this instance creating a day-to-day method will keep the most advanced security measures available for the current problems and keep a safer system for the current users. When figuring out what the current methods of hacking and infiltration is understood, the time to correct issues involving each problem will be more rapid due to the fact that there will be more people on hand to address the issue. Though the hacking world makes strides in hacking as technology advances, keeping up with current trends is a safer and more reasonable tactic due to the possibility of wasted man hours when trying to predict the future. So in summary, if you are looking at a better tactic with a better cost for a company especially to keep a system safe a day to day method is the correct method to take.

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