It seems impossible to draw any lessons from the ongoing failure of cybersecurity to cybersecure, except that the near quarter-trillion dollar and growing global spend isn't turning the tide. It revealed systematic failures in policy, ship design, and tactical execution from which lessons were learned. Jutland ended as a draw on the day and a strategic success for the Brits. Just another week in cybersecurity.īut today's challenge actually far more serious than any naval engagement. 'Bang-bang, glug-glug' goes the employee payroll data of some 20 million workers at 400 organizations thanks to a supply chain hack. 'Bang-bang, glug-glug' goes Microsoft's Azure AD, as a Chinese outfit makes off with a private key – and access to boatloads of US government emails and who knows what else. Nearly a century on, and the modern-day Beattys in charge of the Jutland of cybersecurity should be equally apoplectic about our bloody systems.

'Bang-bang, glug-glug' was the strategy, but the Royal Navy wanted to dole it out, not receive it. Jutland was supposed to prove the wisdom of this, crushing Germany's navy with imperious ease.

It was all the worse because Beatty had promoted the policy of spending enormous sums of cash on the Navy, to keep it numerically and technologically way ahead of the rest of the world. Fair enough: three of the Royal Navy's finest vessels had just blown up and sank. Opinion 'There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,' fumed Admiral David Beatty during 1916's Battle of Jutland.

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