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J. SeamanProtective Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6908-4_8

8. Information Systems Security

Jim Seaman1  
(1)
Castleford, UK
 

I am used to thinking three or four months in advance about what I must do, and I calculate on the worst.

In war nothing is achieved, except by calculation. Everything that is not soundly planned in its details yields no result. If I take so many precautions it is because it is my custom to leave nothing to chance.

Napoleon Bonaparte1

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Figure 8-1.

Emperor Napoleon

Introduction

You may well wonder why I have quoted Napoleon when ...

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