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Preface
Security de-engineering is for anyone with an interest in security, but
the focus is on the aspects of security that matter to businesses and
how businesses do security.
It is clear that the good guys have been doing something wrong
in security. ere are increasing levels of fear and insecurity in the
world as a result of almost daily news headlines relating to new acts of
skullduggery by nancially motivated bad guys. Large-scale incidents
now regularly make headline news even in nancial publications—
this is because the bottom line is now being impacted. Smaller-scale
malware attacks gnaw at corporate balance sheets and lead to identity
theft. ese attacks have led to botnetz-r-us criminal gangs surpass-
ing drug cartels in terms ...