Practical Security Advice for a Digital World
Welcome back! If you read the first article, you’ll know that my journey in cybersecurity started back when the internet sounded like a screeching banshee (aka dial-up), and viruses had names like ILoveYou—not exactly subtle. The early days were a whirlwind of late nights, floppy disks, and convincing people that you didn’t ignore cybersecurity until it bit you.
When I started my career in cybersecurity 30 years ago, the digital world was vastly different. The internet was still in its infancy—back then, it was a luxury to hear the delightful sound of a dial-up modem connecting (if no one picked up the phone and ruined it). Mobile devices? Only in sci-fi movies. And cybersecurity? Let’s say it was considered as necessary as locking your front door in a neighborhood of polite neighbors. Concepts like ransomware and Zero Trust? They didn’t exist yet—probably because I’m older than Google, and these terms hadn’t been invented.