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As mentioned earlier, the most fundamental forces of cybersecurity are speed and connectivity. Our solutions must be built to support and leverage these forces.

Although security has historically slowed things down, security without speed is a losing proposition. Similarly, security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain, so security must enable connectivity—specifically, an integration of your defenses to leverage your strengths. This is a far better core strategy than the common alternative: expecting your weakest point to be better than the adversary's strongest methods. To achieve not only optimal but even basically functional cybersecurity, we must have speed, connectivity, and integrated cybersecurity.

In the pages that follow, we will explore the scientific forces of speed and connectivity that must shape our approach (see Figure 1). We must show how to harness and amplify these forces with cybersecurity that offers greater degrees of precision to counter the increasing sophistication of threat actors and cybercriminals.

Figure 1 Speed and connectivity form the nucleus of the digital big bang.

We will explore how we can create a more scientific approach to cybersecurity, based on accurate assumptions. We will probe the essence of the modern problems we face and see how lessons from the world of science extend to cyberspace, leading us to certain inevitable mind-expanding conclusions about the very nature and order of how cybersecurity must evolve.

This book is divided into parts. Part I explores the digital nucleus of speed and connectivity.

Part II details the elementary shortfalls in the areas of authentication, patching, and training, and Part III discusses fundamental strategies of access control, cryptography, and segmentation.

Part IV covers advanced strategies, including visibility, inspection, and failure recovery, and Part V lays out higher-order dimensions we must account for, including complexity management, privacy, and human frailty.

In keeping with the spirit of the Internet's invention, this book is a collaborative effort. For each of the topics mentioned, we will hear from some of the leading experts in cybersecurity today, across industries and disciplines, as they come together to offer their insights.

We define success as enabling a pace of innovation in the field of security that outruns the inevitable attempts by adversaries to do their dirty deeds.

It is our hope that by focusing on the fundamental and foundational principles of the science of cybersecurity, this book will empower those who fight the battles to achieve more effective, efficient, and consistent victories for many years to come.