Cybersecurity between Scylla and Charybdis (15 min)
Today we often perceive cybersecurity as a voyage between Scylla and Charybdis: between headline panic and obligation fatigue. The lecture calls for bringing rationality back into the debate, seeking resilience instead of fear, and noticing small victories. Security should not be a necessary evil, but a natural part of everyday operations. The media love dramatic stories, but they rarely show the banal causes of incidents: outdated configurations, missing audits, or technologies left unmaintained for years. The “normal conditions” that organizations invoke do not actually exist; what is normal is the threat environment. Cybersecurity therefore cannot be bolted on as an add-on to reality; it has to be part of its day-to-day. The negative mood is also fueled by the notion that “good security is the kind you don’t hear about.” Let’s flip it: good security isn’t afraid to share small successes and admit minor failures, because it grows from them. This is how trust is built and how an organization learns to think in terms of risk without unnecessary hysteria.Between sensationalism and reality
