Finished "A Vulnerable System" by Andrew Stewart (Cornell, 2021) - a Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame selection that traces the history of our field.

[infosecstoic@infosec.exchange]

Finished "A Vulnerable System" by Andrew Stewart (Cornell, 2021) - a Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame selection that traces the history of our field.

What stayed with me: Stewart's challenge to the received wisdom we've built careers on. The CIA triad, defense in depth, "no security through obscurity" - who decided these are best practices, and has anyone verified they actually work? His core argument is that security remains an economic and psychological problem. We keep engineering technical solutions for human ones.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8386873192
https://amazon.ca/dp/1501758942