6 Dumbest Ideas: Action is Better Than Inaction
Six Dumbest Ideas In Computer Security
We're reading from Marcus Ranum's 'Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security'. A challenging, and if you can appreciate sardonic pomposity, a very funny take on enduring ideas that are intuitive, simple and… wrong. Marcus is credited as being the inventor of the proxy firewall and wrote this article in 2005. Almost 20 years later, many of the problems remain, not just unsolved, but, comprehensively worse. In this episode, we're covering Action is Better than Inaction.
Action is Better Than Inaction
Most of good security is "What you don't do". It's not just that running around like a headless-chicken plugging things out will make things worse, it's the whole "proactive" mind set that is dangerous when it's undisciplined. Staying left of bang if often about remaining calm and planning ahead with conservative caution. Buying lots of gear when you've no idea means you'll shoot yourself in the foot.