Four Deadly Sins of Cyber: Sloth, Gluttony, Greed & Pride

Oct 08, 2025

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Abstract

In the UK one of the great global car brands is on the verge of bankruptcy this month due to a single cyber-attack with the consequence of a potential loss of 130,000 jobs. Jaguar Land Rover is seeking a government bail-out to survive.
 
In this first of a series of seminars delivered from the founder of a cybersecurity company in the same city where Jaguar Land Rover is reeling from this attack, we will cover Four Deadly Sins of Cyber with the other 3 sins in a follow-up seminar:
1. Sloth: Bloated legacy architectures and slow patch cycles, run very real risks of seeing their progress as "good enough" up until the very moment some major event proves it wasn't. We will look at how to focus on compartmentalization, and containment.
2. Gluttony: Exponential expansion of networks and devices to serve the AI-masters leading to the Skynet moment. Cyber threats leverage connectivity to spread; contagion control comes from knowing how to control that connectivity.
3. Greed: Insatiable desire to acquire the latest and greatest security software, in the belief that newer is better, irrespective of how it fits and is to be used. Not so in OT networks where few of those are fit for purpose. The aim for simplicity benefits the most important questions "what is where?", "what exactly is the threat?" and "where can we exert control of threats accessing critical resources?".
4. Pride: Overconfidence and self-assuredness in the status quo, doing more of the same will be fine. How's that working out so far? Humans-in-the-loop: some method of controlling contagion is essential. Minimizing the loss remains mandatory.
 
The second half of the seminar will cover three perspectives of a founder of a hardware cybersecurity innovator : 1. The need to look at RoI when deploying solutions, 2. How to frame CNI cyber solutions within SDG/sustainability/impact, and 3. Moving beyond code-jockeys – cyber career perspectives requiring skills in humanities (psychology, philosophy, etc.) to think differently.