FOREWORD
It’s interesting how history demonstrates the ebb and flow of ideas. In many cases, it’s the same ideas finding themselves ebbing and flowing. Maybe ebb and flow isn’t the best analogy. Better would be the pendulum. A topic captures the imagination of a population for a period of time, and then as the pendulum moves in the other direction, that population loses interest in the topic. Of course, the topic doesn’t go away. It just gets buried by new issues du jour.
The mid-2000s were a heyday for security professionals. Everyone wanted to be a security specialist, and the fields were green for them. The threat environment was relatively unsophisticated, and even simple methods for shoring up defenses made a big difference. Then the pendulum ...
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