Protective Security: Creating Military-Grade Defenses for Your Digital Business

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J. SeamanProtective Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6908-4_7

7. Network/IT Security in Protective Security (PS)

Jim Seaman¹  

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Castleford, UK

 

The German occupation of Crete in May 1941, after a rain of destruction from the air, provoked British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to shoot a hotly worded memo to his secretary of state for air and to the chief of the air staff.

Churchill (as depicted in Figure 7-1¹) demanded that

“All airmen ought to be armed with something – a rifle, a tommy-gun, a pistol, a pike, or a mace” and trained “to fight and die in defence of their airfields; … every airfield should be a stronghold of fighting air-ground ...