INTRODUCTION
Most societies teem with a host of networked devices, from servers to smartphones, that provide the backbone for much of modern life. People and companies use these devices to produce and sell products and services, communicate around the globe, educate at every level, and manage the mechanisms of governments everywhere. Networked devices and the complex networks that interconnect them offer advances for humanity on par with, or perhaps beyond, the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. That’s the good news.
The bad news is the fact that reliance on these devices creates a security risk to the resources placed on them. Networks can lose critical data and connections, both of which equate to loss of energy, confidence, time, and ...
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