The New School of Information Security

Preface

“I didn’t have time to write you a short letter,so I wrote a long one.”

—Mark Twain

We’ve taken the time to write a short book, and hope you find it enjoyable and thought-provoking. We aim to reorient security practitioners and those around them to a New School that has been taking shape within information security. This New School is about looking for evidence and analyzing it with approaches from a wide set of disciplines. We’d like to introduce this approach to a wider audience, so we’ve tried to write this book in a way that anyone can understand what we have to say.

This isn’t a book about firewalls, cryptography, or any particular security technology. Rather, it’s about how technology interacts with the broader world. This perspective ...