Ubong Kingsley-Udoh’s Blog | This blog is a summation of my cogitations on a myriad of issues.
For a while now, we have been inundated with news of breaches across the entire spectrum – from the entreprise, to the public sector and it seems it wouldn’t abate anytime soon. The defacto reactionary measures put in place to mitigate polymorphic threats has failed immeasurably and it will be strategic to delve into other playbook(s) in our zest to finding holistic solutions to this malaise. Patterning the present threat landscape imbuing counterterrorism strategies will aid quick detection of anomalous behaviour.
Intrusion detection strategies have always focused on system vulnerabilities, and thereby ascertain immediate threats and not strategic patterns. When you take an introspective look at the current threat landscape, which in itself is quite fierce, it demands strategic-level insights of the all-encompassing threat which includes but isn’t limited to newer tactics, techniques, and procedures. When the Cyber Kill Chain was promulgated to serve as a yardstick for cyber-intrusion detection a while back, intrusions were quite mild as compared to now.
One metric I’ve always kept at the back of my mind is the lifespan of a typical company. In the 1930’s, a typical S&P 500 company had an average lifespan of about ninety years. Fast forward to 2018, it’s about seventeen years. The central question in addressing this issue should be, is your metabolic rate as an organisation fast enough? A book that addresses this concern for me is definitely, “The Constraints of Corporate Tradition” written by Alan Kantrow in 1987. His arguments are premised on the fact that corporate culture needs to be more flexible, and explains how to take advantage of past experiences. Kantrow’s latter position is what I will focus on.
It’s a travesty of genuine humour for the French President, Emmanuel Macron to admonish Nigerians on how they have to build their countries themselves and how to be successful. For the past fifty years, France has ensured that fifteen FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN countries have zero monetary sovereignty. These countries deposit over 50% of their foreign exchange with France and anytime they have to make use of the funds, they borrow it at huge interest rates. How absurd!