[1]Evaluating a "Cybersecurity Moonshot"

    For cybersecurity, however, the "moonshot" or the
    sometimes-interchangeable cyber "Manhattan Project" may not be the
    best models.

    First, both the moonshot and the Manhattan Project were relatively
    focused, short-term efforts aimed at a single and clearly defined
    objective-land on the moon, explode an atomic bomb. We do not have
    the same clarity and focus for cybersecurity. Project Apollo,
    delayed by a tragic fire, took seven years to put people on the moon
    while the Manhattan Project took three years to build the atomic
    bomb. Both were well-resourced. It may be possible to match these
    speeds if the technological objective of the cybersecurity moonshot
    was clearly defined and if the United States is willing to make the
    needed investments, but the construct we call cyberspace is the most
    complex creation ever built by humans. There are entrenched
    interests fearful of any change, and the politics of a cyber
    moonshot will be much more daunting.

    A cyber moonshot could increase its chances of success if it could
    identify technologies that would provide wide-ranging improvements
    for cybersecurity.

  (Via [2]csis.org)

  This article raises some excellent concerns. Indeed, in order for this
  kind of thing to be successful (or like [3]the Solarium Project I wrote
  about the other day) we need to define clear goals and objectives.

  And we need fresh thinking, something VCs, the cybersecurity industry,
  and the US government largely lack at the moment. Everyone seems to be
  iterating the same concepts.

  What do you think? Is this a space where a government run or sponsored
  project could, assuming the best conditions, make a noticeable impact?
  Also on:

  [4]Twitter
    __________________________________________________________________

  My original entry is here: [5]A counter argument on a government run
  cybersecurity "moonshot". It posted Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:09:39 +0000.
  Filed under: business,

References

  1. https://www.csis.org/analysis/evaluating-cybersecurity-moonshot
  2. https://www.csis.org/
  3. https://www.prjorgensen.com/2018/06/27/washington-needs-a-new-solarium-project-to-counter-cyberthreats/
  4. https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/1012262619460395008
  5. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1242

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