energy process, pulling in carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight, and producing sugars and oxygen through photosynthesis. Likewise, in animals, the Krebs cycle defines the way that carbohydrates are converted into energy through a complicated shuffling process of enzymes and catalysts. You are both a living object and an energy process, burning food to make energy.
All life-forms can be seen as processes, not things. Vulnerability to cyber risk can be viewed in the same dualistic way. The “place” view is focused on objects and technology components: the devices, the network, the servers, the software, and all the other parts of the IT infrastructure. The mistake that many companies make is the belief that cyber risk belongs “down there”; that it is solely a question of “fixing the kit.” But just as a firewall mediates the flow of data from the outside to the inside, it is important to examine processes—the “flow” view—when building cyber defenses.