Chapter 9

Layer 8: The People Layer

Introduction

The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) seven-layer reference model is a framework for data communications. As seen in previous chapters, security can be breached by exploiting the flaws and weaknesses of protocols and their implementations, at each layer of the OSI model. Hardware and software behaviors are repeatable; a device or program in a certain state presented with a certain input, will work exactly the same way as it did the last time those same conditions existed. Discovering the conditions ...

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