This post focuses on the three baseline points as we rethink privacy, security, and enterprise risk issues more broadly, and those points are: that there are always lines of communication society uses; in the late 1990s we created a borderless, virtual line of communication; and simultaneously extended our physical supply chains.
Society has always created lines of communication, and these are examples of the progression of the more dominant ones:
There are always 4 components to a line of communication–the road, the platforms, the fuel/propellant, and the engine. The current line of communication can be expressed this way:
Those components can be further categorized.
The rise of the Internet began in the late 1990s and it has caused a number of changes in society, which will be the topic of future posts, but without question it created our first dominant line of communication that was virtual.
At the same time, we also extended our physical supply chains.
That was done for economic and geopolitical reasons, but it had unintended consequences that were potentiated by our simultaneous creation and implementation of the Internet as our dominant line of communication. We created the Hybrid World we now live in, and enabled many of the threats we now face as a society and individuals.