Why Are We Not Winning The Cybersecurity War?

Hardware-based Cyberdefense

Something is very wrong with our approach to cybersecurity. We are not winning the war. The bad guys keep getting through with more and worse attacks every year. Why is this happening? For one thing, the war is asymmetric. Their malware takes just a small amount of code, but our defense systems have grown to be millions of lines of code. Additionally, since the processors in use today are simple, they can’t tell if they are under attack. And to exacerbate that, all software code is buggy, providing an open door to sophisticated attackers whose main way of attacking is by exploiting the inevitable flaws in all software.