![]() ![]() Realistically if someone can pay the “Cost” in either time or money to conduct the attack they can compromise your security." The “Cost” of attack is equal to the amount of either negligence or effort that you or an attacker must pay to destroy, disrupt, or disappear the protected asset. "Security is the art of protecting assets, knowledge or time in such a way that the “Cost” of destroying, disrupting, or disappearing them is insurmountably high. To best do that it’s important to have a working definition of what security means. Correctly thinking about security depends on what you are trying to protect, for most people at a minimum that means their own time, for Systems Administrators that means protecting the time of others as well. In the case of the man I met at Starbucks what he had lost was documents that he spends time writing, pictures he had spent time taking, bookmarks he had spent time finding, business data he had spent time working on, and a computer he now had to spend time getting fixed using money he had spent time earning. Digital security now must encompass a much wider practice security is now the art of protecting time. #Tiddlydesktop bug how toHaving backups may not sound like a security strategy because most of the time when we think of security we think about keeping the bad guys out, in the day and age we live the paradigm of how to build a better digital moat has for the most part been dealt with and what we now need to turn to is how do we deal with threats already behind our gates. We had a short conversation about backups where the painfully obvious was stated and not much more. His laptop had been infected with ransomware and he, unfortunately, didn’t have a backup. The other day I was in Starbucks and overheard a local computer tech helping someone reinstall windows on their laptop, the tech left, and I started a conversation with the laptop owner. ![]()
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