Ceci n'est pas une cybersecurity company

Defending democracy is a pointless goal.

No battle was ever won by defense alone, so defending democracy is a short-sighted, bare minimum effort. Making democracy stronger is a better objective.

Although no two democracies are the same, they share a common thread: Continuity is the throughline in all democracies.

Societal continuity, achieved via trust, security, and privacy, and delivered by, with and through commercial and civic institutions. As sure as death, taxes and Shark Week, we know there will be light when we flip the switch, ample consistently-priced food on supermarket shelves and that the package you ordered will arrive at its destination unopened. That’s institutional continuity.

So why do we tolerate the dwindling institutional continuity in cyberspace?

Shouldn’t the reasonable expectation of security, safety and privacy that covers my person, data, mail, financial transactions, reputation, and purchases extend to cyberspace as well?

I think so. But that is not the direction in which we’re headed.

A leader’s job is to define reality first, lead second. The reality today is that current cyber strategies, tactics and technologies are unviable in the face of this cyber threat.

Cybersecurity --the way we do it now-- is not working. The software doesn’t work, the policy doesn’t work, there is no viable strategy. You can tell because cyber events are increasing in scope, scale, speed, and detrimental impact. No congressionally mandated inquiry or think tank study is required to see the obvious.

The reality is: A democracy cannot thrive under protracted cyber aggression.

I am a builder, not a complainer. The best way to guarantee the future is to build it. So my team and I built the missing infrastructure required to change the trajectory of this cyberconflict, toward an endstate where risk in the cyber and the physical domains are at parity, and as a result, democracies everywhere can gain strength and thrive.

I want a future where American and allied democracy is incontestably strong and getting stronger over time. I also don’t want to live in a world where foreign enemies of the United States have influence over my online affairs (a consequential portion of my daily life, and an idea which I’ll save that for another post).

In my office, we believe democratic values must be proactively protected and enabled to thrive. So we fortify democracies by enabling consistency, trust, security and privacy in critical institutions.

In this way, Nemesis isn’t a cybersecurity company. We work in the cyber domain, but our objective isn’t to protect individual operational environments. Our mission is to eradicate the cyber threat to democracy by denying adversary mission success at scale.

That’s the future we’re building at Nemesis Global.

And this is what #NemesisDelivers.