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The strategic implications of the current Internet design for cyber security

In the last two decades, the Internet system has
evolved from a collection point of a few networks to a worldwide
interconnection of millions of networks and users who connect to
transact virtually all kinds of business. The evolved network
system is also known as Cyberspace. The use of Cyberspace is now
greatly expanded to all fields of human endeavor by far exceeding
the original design projection. And even though, the Internet
architecture and design has been robust enough to accommodate the
extended domains of uses and applications, it has also become a
medium used to launch all sorts of Cyber attacks that results into
several undesirable consequences to users. This thesis analyzes the
current Internet system architecture and design and how their flaws
are exploited to launch Cyber attacks; evaluates reports from
Internet traffic monitoring activities and research reports from
several organizations; provides a mapping of Cyber attacks to
Internet architecture and design flaw origin; conducts Internet
system stakeholder analysis; derives strategic implications of the
impact of Internet system weaknesses on Cyber security; and makes
recommendations on the broader issues of developing effective
strategies to implement Cyber security in enterprise systems that
have increasingly become complex. From a global architectural
design perspective, the study conducted demonstrates that although
the Internet is a robust design, the lack of any means of
authentication on the system is primarily responsible for the host
of Cyber security issues and thus has become the bane of the
system. Following the analysis, extrapolation of facts and by
inferences we conclude that the myriad of Cyber security problems
will remain and continue on the current exponential growth path
until the Internet and in particular the TCP/IP stack is given the
ability to authenticate and that only through a collaborative
effort by all stakeholders of the Internet system can the other
major Cyber security issues be resolved especially as it relates to
envisioning and fashioning new Cyber security centric
technologies.