Rethinking Cyber Policy for the Age of AI Security

Interesting Tech Fact:

Long before digital firewalls existed, one of the earliest formal information security policies emerged in 1972 through a secret U.S. Department of Defense project called the Ware Report — a document that quietly laid the foundation for modern cybersecurity standards decades before the term even existed. Led by computer scientist Willis Ware, this report warned that as computers began to share data remotely, confidentiality and system integrity would become “a national vulnerability.” What makes this piece of history remarkable is that it introduced the idea of mandatory access controls, accountability logs, and user authentication — concepts that would later shape frameworks like NIST and ISO 27001. Few realize that the policies protecting today’s cloud infrastructures and AI-driven systems trace their roots back to a Cold War-era think tank that foresaw the rise of data breaches before the internet was even born.