iSD in the Tech Age!



Net-self-defense, we spend an exorbitant amount of time on our physical defense training and then we forget that our lives are in just as much danger of "Grave Financial Harm" or Financial ruin (Death) as if we are attacked by a street predator. Research and studies show, from the security experts in this field, that Anti-virus and Firewall suites only catch about 5% of the threats out there and those same folks tell us that it is in all probability worse at the Enterprise levels.


My goal here is to educate myself, and by proxy, pass on what I learn to others so that each individual who is connected at any level can take steps to achieve some semblance of security in their electronic on-line lives. We are so deeply imbedded in modern technology that to not take appropriate actions to learn iSD or internet self-defense in the technological age is just foolishness.


My goal is to provide enough of a foundation that readers, like me, can take the appropriate actions, i.e., apply those fundamental principles of technological methodologies to safeguard one of the more important, actually critical, strategies and tactics to defend ourselves from grave economical harm or even economical/financial death or ruin from nefarious predatory hacking processes.


Nothing in this blog is definitive, it is meant to set a foundation of knowledge, understanding and awareness so that you are not one day blindsided by some effort to steal your very life out from underneath you so fast you feel like you have been hit behind the ear and knocked into a daze of confusion, fear and finally anger where your tech-life falls apart and ruins your real life utterly, completely and with no light in sight down that dark, empty and black hole.


Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Surviving the Internet of Things

The list is partial and will grow but this is a good start. It will only come about when humans/users begin to realize, through eduction and understanding, the threat and grave losses all of us incur and will incur if we don’t take corrective actions very, very soon. 
  • Insist on secure software.
  • Require damages for non-compliance for secure software.
  • Reduce/Remove unsolicited data source storage and collection.
  • Secure those data sources with same damages for non-compliance.
  • Kill the password.
  • Encrypt code and apps by default and apply same damages for non-compliance.
  • Educate the users.
  • Required layered security involving technology and humans/users, apply damages for non-compliance.
  • Make cyber-security a lawful requirement with damages for non-compliance on all Internet Access, etc.
  • Make cyber-security a human-centered designed oriented thinking. 
  • Build more robust, responsive, and flexible defense methods for the internet, code, apps, programs, etc.
  • Practice good cyber hygiene by practicing safe tech, i.e., ways to teach, train and practice by users with reminders about practicing good computer skills.
  • Users take stewardship over their networks and devices, take personal responsibility and apply monetary fines when they fail.
  • Provide the public with proven methods of cyber hygiene to protect themselves.
  • Perform proactive network monitoring to detect infections and outbreaks of malware, etc. and apply damagers for non-compliance, etc.
  • Provide global incident responses by experts as required and coordinate globally efforts to isolate sources of criminal activity by Crime, inc. and the uVerse hacking predators then levy high monetary damages for failure to comply. 
  • Develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorism creating new biological viruses, etc. and apply monetary fines for non-compliance at levels commensurate to the business/systems funding, etc.
  • Create a worthwhile incentive program and competition for global security at a level at least commensurate to that of the criminal world. 
Return often to see additions to this list, mark it with a bookmark in your browser. 

Bibliography (Click the link)
Goodman, Marc. “Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It.” Doubleday. New York. 24 February 2015. 


1 comment:

  1. the internet is the greatest learning tool ever created, I like any of my colleagues have migrated all my martial arts teaching buisness online. You should check out www.mmagap.com , its like amazon for martial arts education.

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