“May you live in interesting times” is a proverb that has resonated in my life over the last four decades as both a curse and blessing.
No small part of that valuation is attributable to the pace at which technology innovations have been advanced and now contribute to the quality and challenges of the lives we lead. Those advances came at a cost, none more notable than the degradation of the boundaries that traditionally defined our world and around which we constructed and imputed meaning to the environments churning around us. The associated porosity that attended that degradation has been exacerbated by the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which our adversaries have discovered new and almost innumerable attack vectors through which to strike at our interests.