Security at the Cyber-Physical Intersections
In my previous post Complexity impedes Security I covered the simplification principles. The Cyber-Physical interactions are the focus in this post. The Physical-space comprises the geographical locations and the users and the tools in them orchestrated within a business process context. The Cyber-space comprises the Network that provides the connectivity, the Platforms that provide containers for the Applications to run on hence process the Data. Enterprises operate their businesses across the breadth and depth of their capabilities using internal and external entities that share each others’ physical and cyber space. E.g., an Order Processing system illustrated here has a Payment Processing Team operating from Vietnam, an Order Processing Application accessible over the extranet (to employees, partners and customers) and a product catalog hosted on the Cloud. Today’s Enterprises, old and new alike, operate a network of processes that tr...