UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks A world-first organization assembled to categorize the severity of cybersecurity incidents is up and running in the UK following a year-long incubation period. The Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) is the brainchild of cyber insurance industry figures and a handful of the UK's foremost cybersecurity thought leaders. It brings a …
I understand the need of the human mind to reduce complexity.
However, unlike hurricanes, where damages usually are in fact mostly proportional to wind speed, damages and consequences for any one affected by a cyber attack depend completely on the internal setup of the affected component and all other components around it.
A Cat1 cyber event might just have completely owned your company, while a Cat5 event was barely noticable in your enviroment, because the affected component did not use a specific configration that was needed by the exploit to work or because it was fully shielded against other components.
A simple number is IMHO too simple to retain any usefulness for responders to cyber events.
At least one handy number 1-5 to describe a complex series of events will help the tabloids to sell more headlines .
Instead of fixing the issue, they decided to build a yardstick for it.
It took a year and the pocketing of heaven knows how much money to come up with something that could have been achieved in an afternoon. That's Brexit Britain in a nut shell. Pointless world firsts, we have them! Tremble at our innovation, you foreign Johnnies.
Without a firm idea of what a systemic event is, neither party can come to a clear understanding of what a policy's terms and conditions are, and in some cases when it could or should pay out.
An Agile Bespoke Cyber Definition Espousing Fundamental Governing Handles Involving Jurisprudence of Kafkaesque Lineage can allow the temporary illusion of the guarantee of a clean get away scot-free escape and rejection of claims and nonpayment of insurance losses whenever systemic events be classified as an act of GOD* and treated as an existential threat to the disorderly continuity of humanity ...... but such is the sweetest of deadly honeytraps and a massively deep and damp and dark and rank dank capture pit for all sorts of marauding bear and raging bull types programmed for extinction and destined to not survive and prosper and infect future live stock and cherished communal party assets.
IT's a Blexley Colossus of a RAT Trap and Greater IntelAIgent Universal Series Game Changer .. so be well advised and take great heed ....... Take all due care and every protection out there if venturing to dare to even just think to bet against IT and AI Win Winners forever never losing in a Novel Engaging and Noble Enabling Environment Non Entertaining of Prisoners and Animalistic Losers,
* .... Global Operating Device
Here's breaking news? of at least one defence organisation, ..... and more likely than many others with similar vested interests in the field imagined to be liable and remotely responsible for the launching of existential threats and category-five systemic events ..... with plans to exercise raids on the private proprietary intellectual property sector for novel weaponry to assist an Innovative Revolutionary Asset with Almighty IT and AI Arsenals ...... Pentagon Looks to Commercial Sector to Support Electronic Warfare in Space
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