At the beginning of WWI, battlefield tactics had not advanced much since the U.S. Civil War. With the invention of the water-cooled machine gun and pill box fortification, human waves were ineffective. The sides adapted to this new reality with trench warfare, long-range munitions, and a battlefield stalemate for much of the war. In theory, cybersecurity should behave in a similar way where new threats lead to new defenses and tactics. In the past, each new type of threat (i.e. SPAM, spyware, DOS attacks) was addressed with a discrete threat management solution.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2221597/cybersecurity-lessons-from-the-battlefields-of-europe.html