The Rise of U.S. Government Security Programs
Cybersecurity today appears as a sprawling global ecosystem shaped by advanced technologies, nation-state adversaries, regulations, and industrialized cybercrime. Yet the roots of this industry lie in a time when computers filled entire rooms, the internet did not exist, and even basic concepts wie network isolation or user authentication were still in their infancy. Long before […]
The First Cyberattacks: From Cunningham to the Morris Worm
When people talk about cyberattacks today, they think of ransomware cartels, state-sponsored threat actors and global crime ecosystems operating like corporations. Yet the first digital intrusions that shaped the foundations of cybersecurity were far less organized, far less malicious – and precisely for that reason so important. They came from curiosity, experimentation and from a […]
The First Mainframes and the Birth of Unix Security – How Modern Cybersecurity Took Shape
Before cybersecurity became a global industry, before firewalls, intrusion detection systems or Zero Trust models existed, there was a world where computers resembled industrial machinery more than modern IT systems. Towering mainframes, often filling entire rooms, formed the backbone of research institutions, government agencies and early enterprise computing. Yet they were surprisingly unprotected. In the […]
The Birth of Cybersecurity: How It All Began (1970–1984)
AI may dominate today’s headlines, but the origins of modern cybersecurity go back several decades. Long before firewalls existed, before endpoints generated millions of data points, and before cybercrime became a global business model, the foundations of today’s security industry were already being formed. To understand what truly shapes IT security today and why IT […]