Overview of cyber security: a crisis of prioritization

The Internet, originally a development of the USA government, opened to commercial traffic in the early 1990s. Since then, its growth internationally has been phenomenal. In several nations, the Internet is now fundamental for communication, and it has become basic to society, including supporting several aspects of the USA national critical information infrastructure. Because the Internet was built as all information-sharing network, security did not figure prominently in its original architecture. This deployment is beneficial but it has also brought serious risks.