Tag: complex systems
In this blog series, I explore the challenges of the information security practitioner, discussing how technical evolution simultaneously contributes new issues but presents new techniques for solving these issues. I begin with an academic question: Can humans create a system so large that the problems surrounding it are not solvable at human scale? There are…
Read MoreIt seems earthshaking vulnerabilities are released weekly that leave vendors and system administrators scrambling to remediate. So, where are all these vulnerabilities coming from? A simple search on the National Vulnerability Database shows over 3,300 new vulnerabilities released in just the past 3 months.1 Granted that many of these vulnerabilities are esoteric and limited to…
Read MoreIn part I of this series, I explored some of the issues surrounding the fact that we have managed to build networks so large and complex that it is essentially impossible to grasp any significant fraction of network activities without asking for help from… the network itself. In this installment, I delve into some actual techniques…
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