You Cannot Secure Cyber
Cyber is useful as an executive umbrella term, but dangerous when practitioners adopt it as precise language. Security is an engineering discipline. Engineering requires specificity. You secure assets, systems, identities, data, processes, and trust boundaries. You do not secure “cyber”. This article was prompted by conversations I had around BSides Calgary 2026, but it is not about BSides. It is about a broader habit in the security industry. I grew up around the 90s hacker scene, so I should probably have more tolerance for the word “cyber”. ...