My textbook lists categories of cyber-attacks that focus on an attack’s lasting impact: how does it affect the target’s assets and resources? Since the categories really reflect the attack’s impact on the target, they really represent risks. Here are the categories I use right now:
This is a work in progress as I figure out some conceptual ideas.
[This post contains text I’m trying out for a new writing project on cybersecurity in the mobile age. I might be posting more such stuff in the future]
In an ideal world, we share with other people directly. We speak quietly face-to-face, gesture, and draw occasional images.
In the real world, most people are too far away to hear our words. We use cell phones and other mobile devices to carry our words farther.
Today’s mobile devices try to solve the deceptively simple problem of sharing text, images, and words. The natural world restricts the power of our voices and the range of our messages. Misunderstandings that already happen face-to-face are multiplied when we restrict our messages to text, images, and sounds.
