Hospitals & Cyber Resilience

I'm not a doctor or any kind of healthcare provider. This blog post encompasses a jumble of assumptions, questions, and guesses. It palpably demonstrates that I am only a patient of the US healthcare system. But, I hope that I am making the right assumptions, questions, and guesses about hospitals (or the healthcare system overall) and cyber resilience. I'd like you to let me know with your comments to this blog post.

Future Financial Viability of Selling Cyber Insurance: Assumptions; Questions; No Answers

I believe that the future financial viability of selling cyber insurance will be bleak at best and, more than likely, unprofitable. That is my driving assumption about future sales of cyber insurance. When is that "future" going to arrive? Thank you, July 2024 CrowdStrike cyber incident (not a cyber-attack, I know) for giving the world… Continue reading Future Financial Viability of Selling Cyber Insurance: Assumptions; Questions; No Answers

The Cyber Age: a Few Thoughts

One thought : when did the Cyber Age start? It's not just a nice-to-know question. Regardless of when it began, the Cyber Age is enabled by a foundation of five technologies (digitization, mobility, cloud, web, and AI) and their concomitant applications that dramatically changed how society interacts within itself, including conducting (or consuming, if you… Continue reading The Cyber Age: a Few Thoughts

Cyber Predictions: You Don’t Know…

I believe that there are many unknowns in the Cyber Age. You can flash back to the 2X2 of "known-knowns", "known-unknowns", "unknown-knowns" and "unknown-unknowns" but I want to keep it somewhat straightforward. That's why I show the illustrative visualization below. It's my attempt of showing a relatively straight-forward visualization, a 2-dimensional visualization at that, of… Continue reading Cyber Predictions: You Don’t Know…

Suggested Annual Corporate Cyber Budget Elements

Suggested annual corporate cyber budget elements At this point-in-time on January 2, 2024, I think there are several budget elements which corporations should include, or consider including, in the list of known and probable (continual) annual cyber expenditures. My suggested annual corporation cyber budget elements are the: Cost of creating and maintaining a cyber insurance… Continue reading Suggested Annual Corporate Cyber Budget Elements