Twenty Nickels
If you save twenty nickels, you’ve made a dollar
by
Raymond Matkowsky
www.datastats.com
email: rdm@datastats.com
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Issue 1-16 January 2016
Financial Cyber Attack – Not Really So Scary
by
Raymond Matkowsky
Many politicians stay awake at night worrying about the financial infrastructure of advanced nations being taken down through a cyber attack by some evil entity determined to catapult itself into world domination. It doesn’t have to be that way.
My wife was a registered nurse for forty plus years. Nurses always had a saying: “If it isn’t written down, it never happened.” A few years back, I read a Tom Clancy book that featured Jack Ryan as President of the United States. President Ryan’s wife was an eye doctor that always used the phrase “If it isn’t written down, it never happened.” In the story, President Ryan is faced with a cyber attack on Wall Street. After much deliberation, he found his answer in his wife’s saying.
We travel forward to 2016. People are constantly warning about a cyber attack. We are lead to believe that it is not a question of if but when.
The answer is still the same. If an attack comes, reset everything to the day before and continue from there. The information from the previous day will be backed up and probably exist in thousands of locations unharmed. This would not allow an attack to become a major blow. There is one further advantage. If the evil entity decides that there will be no significant advantage to an attack, then an attack is less likely to come.
I know that this maybe a simplistic view. I am sure that there are many factors that I am not aware of. No doubt, someone is. I know that the readers of this newsletter and website are intelligent forward thinking people that may have many solutions to this possibility. I would implore you to give this scenario some thought and forward your insights, comments and thoughts to me at rdm@datastats.com. I will try to reprint the most insightful ones in this column. Between us all, we may be able to solve the problem and allow our politicians to get some sleep.
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