 | Rule of Separation |
The Rule of Separation states that to secure something, it must be separated from the dangers and threats of the world around it. In accordance with the Rule of Least Privilege, we should only bestow access to our treasure room on those who really require such access. Consider, however, if we also had a library in the middle of our treasure room, and had to allow students to come in to study. We don't want the students to have access to the gold, but we can't deny them access to the books!
Often, our treasure rooms are not so cut and dried as to say, “The gold is inside and the thieves are outside,” just as the protective barriers ...
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