We need to bring back the enthusiastic rallying cry of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, who got up on stage and, now infamously, began chanting 'Developers! Developers! Developers!' While his antics were widely derided and quickly became their own meme, we should take the sentiment to heart. It is time to focus our efforts on defense-not the attacks-and make heroes of the people who can make a difference: Developers.

Today, however, attacks such as the NotPetya ransomware and Stuxnet cyber attack have actually damaged systems and stopped production, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the affected organizations. Since that time, the stakes have risen. The Morris worm resulted in costs to organizations from lost productivity: The time spent cleaning up the infections and reinstalling software. But that did not dissuade others from focusing on software flaws: He and others became famous for breaking software and exploiting vulnerabilities. Morris also became the first person prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.

The worm wasn't meant to be malicious, but due to an error in his approach, the program quickly spread-infecting 10% of the servers making up the Internet at the time. He wanted to gauge how big the Internet was, and developed a worm that made use of numerous software vulnerabilities. In 1988, Robert Morris had an itch that needed to be scratched.

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