From Floppy Disks to Firewalls: The Forgotten History of Cybersecurity Tools (Antivirus, IDS, and Early Defenses)
If you think cybersecurity is all AI and automation today, you’re right—but that’s not where it started. Long before machine learning models scanned terabytes of logs, defenders relied on simpler tools: basic firewalls, signature-based antivirus, and early intrusion detection systems (IDS). They were rough. They were manual. And they saved the internet from chaos. Here’s…