The document discusses the past, present, and future of intellectual security and cyber attacks. It notes that in the past, warfare relied on basic decoding and physical assets, while intellectual destruction was not a key strategy. However, today nearly all information exists in digital form, making it easily accessible through IT infrastructure breaches. Looking ahead, significant resources will need to focus not just on building systems but ensuring their security. Educating professionals on both tools and intellectual asset protection will be important.

2. Volume 1 | Issue 15
16th
March 2017
Learning for the learning industry from the Yahoo
Cyber Attack
Intellectual Security

3. We have broken this article into 4 parts
Past
Present
Future
Relationships

4. • Past
 Spy and warfare depended on elementary decoding and attacks
 Physical assets were larger as source of power
 Intellectual destruction was not a large part of strategy
 Wars were largely at borders
•Present
Intellectual capital and cyber interaction is ever increasing
Nearly all information is in bits and bytes in the ecosystem
Information of all kinds can be far easily got by just getting into the IT
infrastructure and code

5. • Future
 A large resource in terms of time and investment will go into not just
building systems but keeping them secure
• Relationships
 Social life shall be dependent on information technology and allied
infrastructure

6. • Summary
 Learning professionals will need to educate more and more on not
just tools but also on how to protect the intellectual assets
 Precaution will be better than cure in our approach to this

7. Author
Prashant Khanna
Director & Co-founder
Enhance Systems Private Limited
Delight through learning
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