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The decade's best investment wasn't the stock market. It was cybercrime.

​From 2014 to 2024, $100 invested in the S&P 500 would have earned you $383. The same $100 invested in the cybercrime economy became $2,074. Built Wrong explains why that gap keeps widening, and how the security industry was built in a way that guaranteed it.​

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    “I was one of the lucky ones who got to read the early drafts of Richard’s book “Built Wrong.” I’ve had the privilege of getting to know Richard well over the years, and what I’ve always admired about him is his fearlessness and his unflinching commitment to truth. “Built Wrong” is a book filled with uncomfortable truths. I’m sure that it will anger quite a few people, but hopefully it will open the eyes of even more.”

    John Kindervag

    The Creator of Zero Trust

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    What is the book about?

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    We spend more every year. We lose more every year. Both of those are working as designed.

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    Built Wrong is a structural indictment of the economics of cybersecurity. Not a failure of effort. Not a failure of talent. The predictable output of an ecosystem that gets paid for activity and has never once been asked to prove an outcome.

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    This is an insider's view of how we built a system that has normalized failure. And when failure is normalized, improvement is optional.