Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions

Becoming Invisible to Your Enemies

As I stated in Chapter 6, Making Security Decisions, in the section that discussed secretless security, good security does not keep any secrets and yet remains secure. Once objects have been secured, however, keeping them secret can only help to further protect them. The importance of secretless security is to never rely on a secret to remain secure. Secrecy, however, can be used to enhance security once all other measures are in place. The two main advantages to making us and our objects invisible are:

• To avoid becoming the target of an attack

• To make it much more difficult for an attacker to acquire useful information

Before we are able to conceal ourselves, we must first recognize from whom we are concealing ...