10 Theory toPractice

DOI: 10.1201/9781003245223-10

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

10.1 Introduction

It is time to put the concepts you have been reading about into practice. The previous chapters gave you the foundation needed to understand the implications of decisions made during real security incidents. There are three cases presented in this chapter. I will present the first two cases in a story format as they happened. The third case recounts the details of a high-profile litigation. After each case, an after-action report (aka a postmortem) will be presented. A postmortem is an exercise that a team performs to review a project with the goal that ...

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