Ramiz Yousuf

Tamara Warren Chinyani

CST 110

15 June 2020
The Five Laws Of Cyber Security

This particular video interested me because it had to do with cyber security and

the five laws that come within cybersecurity. According to Nick Espinosa, all of us use

languages in order to communicate with each other. Yet we don't use the common

language that most people use, which is “nerd”. Nick Espinosa really had me intrigued

when he delivered this part of his speech. He explained how we all use languages in our

everyday lives, yet the one language we tend to miss out on is the “nerd” language which

is mainly an expression claiming how the “nerd” language is basically compared to how

people respond to each other within text or over social media. Apart from his well

delivered introduction and the way he transitioned from his intro to the five laws

smoothly had me hooked onto the video without a doubt. He then begins to explain about

the first law which is “ if there is a vulnerability, it will be exploited”. He begins to

explain this first law by comparing it to an idea in which if there was a bank being

conceived and built, that there will always be a person thinking about robbing that bank.

This example he explains basically means that if something is capable of being done, it

will be done.
 The second law he moved onto was “everything is vulnerable in some way”. This

law basically means that anything is hackable, no matter if the government or

corporations invest millions into cyber defense strategies, hackers always find ways to

breach into any platform they can. Nick Espinosa gets this law straight across your head

without a doubt, because there are people out there questioning whether their device is

hackable or not. Nick Espinosa persuades you to believe that your device is indeed

hackable and easily vulnerable. Apart from him getting his point across on this topic, one

thing I want to point out is that he does not stutter one bit, he does not second guess what

he has to say within his speech. I Believe that this is a major element when delivering a

speech to an audience, because I compared this video to another video that was in the

same category and I kid you not I was disappointed due to the fact that the person who

delivered the other speech kept on pausing and messing up on his speech. On this speech

it's all contrary, Nick delivers the speech as if he delivered this speech a million times

before and that is something that I give him credit for. The third law that Nick moves

onto is “Humans can trust when they shouldn't”. The way Nick Espinosa explained this

law had me in tears of laughter. He delivered this law by telling the audience that there

was something that his team had located underneath everyone's chair within the audience,

he then made everyone check, and when no one found anything, he then popped up the

next slide with the law reading out “ humans can trust when they shouldn't”. Everyone

then laughed at the joke, realizing that they were part of the message the whole time. This

law mainly meant that you shouldn't trust most of the things that are being persuaded or

brought up to you on the internet because it's most likely being controlled by a hacker.
 The fourth law that Nick Espinosa brings up during his ted talk is “with

innovation, comes opportunity for exploitation”. He explains this law by getting to the

point that with all these helpful and useful innovations that the world has come up with

such as the telephone, facebook, messaging, etc, there will also be room for innovation as

well. MEaning that with all these useful tools we create there will be opportunity that

these tools will either turn against us or others could have the advantage of using those

useful tools for exploitation. So with innovation there is always opportunity for

exploitation. The fifth and final law that Nick Espinosa mentions is “when in doubt, see

law number one”. He clearly mentions that he didn't make this law a copy cat or

anything. He made this law because he wanted to heavily express that there are people

out there out there who are good and will do the things for the right but there are also

people who if they see any space or room for vulnerability. He or she will exploit it if he

or she really wants it. So law number f five is mainly law number one , due to the fact

that law number one is highly important. Overall I believe that Nick Espinosa has

delivered a well spoken speech and highly informative, Honestly there are no complaints

only one being that there could have been a better law for the final one. I feel that ending

a speech by copying the first law is pointless, You could have just made it a four law

video instead and within the video instead of making a fifth law the same as the first just

make four and explain how the first one is highly important instead of making it a final

law. Besides that I really liked the speech and I hope you do as well.
Work Cited
Talks, T. (Director). (2018, September 7). The Five Laws of Cybersecurity | Nick Espinosa

[Video file]. Retrieved June 18, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nVq7f26-

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