Ms. Gentry Lane is the CEO and founder of ANOVA Intelligence, a computational defense technology company, visiting fellow at the National Security Institute, consultant at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and internationally recognized cyberconflict strategy expert.
Because cybersecurity events are complicated, we rely on analogies to understand how they work. Analogies are useful, but certain oversimplifications are perpetuating inaccurate narratives. These inaccuracies misdirect productive discussion and as a result, proposed policy and solutions are being based on faulty assumptions. A faulty premise can only yield flawed results…and cyber national security is not an area in which the United States has margin for error.
