The underlying catalyst for cybersecurity is being awake and aware enough to value it as much as maintaining uptime, process safety and profit. However, the trick is getting that catalyst over the metaphorical, potential-energy hump it needs to ignite, propagate and maintain long-term consistency. Just like brushing teeth, eating vegetables, putting on a jacket, registering to vote or instilling other good habits.

Unfortunately, it seems that cybersecurity best practices must be repeated endlessly to get them slowly hammered into some impenetrably thick skulls that still aren’t practicing even basic cybersecurity. These include revising default passwords and authentications, only allowing limited, role-based communications, functionally segmenting networks, and monitoring and evaluating network traffic for anomalies that could indicate likely cyber-probes, -intrusions and -attacks.