Imagine a hospital employee connecting to their building's WiFi network, only for a sudden power interruption to occur. Monitors flatline. Flashing across the sole remaining screen, a hacker's message demands Bitcoin—the patient's lives held hostage—all from a single compromised cellphone.
This scenario plays out daily, contributing to cybercrime's $10.5 trillion global toll by 2025. Dr. Eric Cole, a former CIA hacker turned cybersecurity strategist dubbed "America's Cyber Czar," argues the solution is not to double down on chasing attackers but to rewrite how the world trains digital defenders.
