There’s No Silver Bullet for Cybersecurity

Governments are incapable of fixing the insecurity of the internet by themselves, and businesses are unlikely to do it until the economic pain of ignoring the insecurity of the internet becomes greater than the profits it can earn from it. There are no silver bullets beyond restructuring the internet to rely more on new secure private networks, particularly for the operation of critical infrastructure. That will require businesses, governments, and users in democratic nations to act together to transform the internet into networks that rely on the authentication of people rather than IP addresses, mandate strict rules of online behavior, and maintain cyber police (human or machine) to enforce them.