Foreword
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Information Technology (IT) matters. The security of IT matters. IT is ubiquitous. We depend on it working as intended every minute of every day. All too often, IT is designed and built for a pristine, uncontested environment. But this is not the real world—the world in which we live, work, and play. The real world is not a scientific “clean room.” Competitive adversaries will take advantage of known flaws in IT and even insert their own weaknesses to exploit later. We need to do a better job of building security into the IT we develop. We also need to do a better job of managing security risks in the ...
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