Survivability in Cyber Warfare and Potential Impacts for Failure

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

– General George S Patton

War is just that: war. Be it a "legacy" engagement on the front lines of some foreign chunk of soil, or be it on some digital piece of infrastructure, it is no less daunting and no less ugly. The battleground we find ourselves on today is one that is transitory in nature, ethereal in its definition, and dynamic at its core. Every man, woman, child, device, application, and anything else on the planet that is online and sending or receiving an electron is literally transiting a live fire battlefield. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, this combat zone never stops, and never takes a moment's rest. The only way to survive in a space that is this fraught with danger is to have a solid strategic approach and to abide by a list of practices that translate equally...