I've heard a lot of talk about cyberthreats over the past 15 years, yet I haven't seen anyone offer a holistic way to address them. As I reflect on my own experiences and chal-lenges in information and operational technology, the last problem of this magnitude that we had to face was the feared millennium bug, or Y2K. A mere 17 years later, the information technology landscape looks eerily the same. For many chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CISOs), the size and scope of the millennium bug is about the same as today's major security challenge: the cyber bug. We can find many similarities between present-day cyber-security concerns and the ramp up to Y2K, when the world spent billions patching and replacing systems to prevent massive infrastructure failures.
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