The Cyber Conundrum: How Do We Fix Cybersecurity?

The 2016 presidential election was chaotic for manyreasons. Perhaps the most troubling was news that aforeign power used new cyber warfare tactics to influenceour views and skew the election. These new revelationscome to light as many grow weary of a new reality wherehackers always seem to be one step ahead of us.Author Peter K. Chronis claims we need a “moonshot” tobolster our cybersecurity—an astonishing achievement onthe scale of wiping out polio, defeating the Nazis, orlanding on the moon. The author uses inspiration andlessons from these other complex “moonshots” as a guideto help us develop a comprehensive cybersecuritystrategy.Written with a nontechnical audience in mind, The CyberConundrum examines the many flaws in globalcybersecurity strategy and proposes solutions the techindustry, governments, and companies need to explore toaddress fundamental cybersecurity challenges.Without fundamental change, our democratic institutions,the critical services we rely on every day (electricity,communications, financial institutions and more), and thefree flow of information are in jeopardy—making this anissue important to everyone.