{"id":1093,"date":"2022-07-26T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:30:26","slug":"building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n

\u201cThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.\u201d<\/p>\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One man has made it his mission to build a global defense to this invisible threat on critical infrastructure and national security. Following his most recent service as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations and Environment, Lucian Niemeyer took the helm of Building Cyber Security, a non-profit on a mission to build a holistic, multi-faceted defense against the invisible threat of cyber-attacks on our critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read More about ‘Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat<\/a>‘ Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBuilding A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security - Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security - Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-26T18:00:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-27T22:30:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/747\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84-814x630.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"814\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-26T18:00:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-27T22:30:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/747\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Cybersecurity Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/\",\"name\":\"Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security - Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/747\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-26T18:00:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-27T22:30:26+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/26\\\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/747\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/747\\\/2022\\\/07\\\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png\",\"width\":814,\"height\":955,\"caption\":\"Lucian Niemeyer\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/\",\"name\":\"Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.boisestate.edu\\\/cybersecurity\\\/author\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security - Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security - Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity","og_description":"\u201cThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/","og_site_name":"Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity","article_published_time":"2022-07-26T18:00:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-27T22:30:26+00:00","og_image":[{"width":814,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/747\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84-814x630.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security","datePublished":"2022-07-26T18:00:25+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-27T22:30:26+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/"},"wordCount":123,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/747\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png","articleSection":["Cybersecurity Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/","url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/","name":"Building A Defense Against An Invisible Threat: A New Approach To Building Cyber Security - Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/747\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png","datePublished":"2022-07-26T18:00:25+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-27T22:30:26+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/2022\/07\/26\/building-a-defense-against-an-invisible-threat-a-new-approach-to-building-cyber-security\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/747\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/747\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png","width":814,"height":955,"caption":"Lucian Niemeyer"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/","name":"Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/author\/"}]}},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/747\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-26-at-09-22-46-960x0.jpg-JPEG-Image-960-\u00d7-1125-pixels-\u2014-Scaled-84.png","author_name":"","cats":["Cybersecurity Blog"],"featured_caption":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/cybersecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}