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Cyberspace is characterized by a massive convergence of people, technology, and data on an exponential scale. The model would suggest that this convergence occurs on any given layer and between all the layers. More importantly, when you connect to cyberspace, it may be understood that the whole of it connects to you. Security professionals strive to reduce or mitigate unwanted connections, but the drive to connect is an unstoppable force within cyberspace. This leads to the increasing use of the term IoT to describe a seemingly inexorable trend to connect everything to everything—refrigerators, cars, power plants, and more—all connected to, in and through cyberspace. As a result, system designer and user choices about whether and how to connect must be driven by an up-front consideration of the implications of convergence versus an approach that says “I'll solve that problem when I get to it” (users get that problem when they connect to it). Furthermore, as previously noted, convergence and geography do not easily mix in a world that applies distinct and different rules based on physical location. Cyberspace will require both collaboration and normalization across these boundaries, though clarity on the part of those wielding jurisdiction based on geography regarding locally expected behaviors and consequences would be a valuable down payment to reconciliation across locales.