دانلود کتاب ناامنی سایبری – بررسی گذشته، تعریف آینده

After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, John F. Kennedy famously noted, “Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” It seems this quote was originally from Tacitus, which in Latin has a slightly different tone: “This is an unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.” This book is clear evidence of the fact that this saying, though it sounds great, is often not true. Recent chain of disastrous events in cybersecurity is impossible to attribute to a single particular failure. It is (as it often happens with disasters) a result of a chain of seemingly unrelated events, each of which separately may look relatively innocent, but their cumulative effect is fascinating and is a clear illustration of the adage attributed to Aristotle: “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” Step by step this book paints a picture of multiple, unrelated from the first glance, events that led us to the current appalling state of where cybersecurity is today. We go into reasonable detail describing historical perspectives that have contributed to the current state. For each and every stream discussed in this book, decision(s) made at the time have been made with the best intentions, but as we look back, we can see where combined effect of these decisions brought us to. Those who may start wondering why do we need to go back in time, should read this short, but very educational essay: “4 feet 8.5 inches, The Space Shuttle and a Horse’s Ass” ( https:// www. linkedin. com/ pulse/ 4- feet- 85- inches- space- shuttle- horses- ass- william- batch- batchelder#:~: text= Space% 20Shuttle% 20Solid% 20Rocket% 20Boosters, 4% 20feet% 208. 5% 20inches% 20wide). The author expects that a number of rocks will be thrown into him by zealots of every stream discussed. And that’s okay. Debate is useful and expected. Let’s have these debates. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” St. Bernard of Clairvaux allegedly wrote c. 1150. And it looks like this is still true.