[Dailydave] Security Paleontology - The Jurassic Park rule

[William Arbaugh]

On Jul 17, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Dave Aitel <dave at immunityinc.com> wrote:

> I got a bunch of replies that said this:
> """
> Dave, enjoyed reading your rant, but I don't understand your punchline on securing data --"but in fact, just to make it less valuable" - how do you do make data less valuable?
> """
> 
Ultimately, we're suffering from the sins of the early days of information assurance. The focus then, as now, was on protecting the computers and networks. Instead, the focus should have been on protecting the data.

It's a huge paradigm shift, and one that won't happen easily if at all.