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Achieving Security: Passively Protecting the Enterprise
Overview The word security is derived from the Latin word securus, meaning safe, free from care, unworried, unconcerned. Therefore, an assumption can be made that to be truly secure, a high level of confidence in a particular methodology or environment must exist. The question then becomes what constitutes free from care. Car-jackings and burglaries have taught us the need to lock our doors. However, until the door is locked, i.e. we remember to lock the door, we are not secure. Unfortunately, this type of intervention hardly constitutes free from care, as it requires active participation and thus protection levels will vary among individuals. An apartment building with a self-locking entrance is effective only if every tenant properly closes the door. Thus, active participation becomes the weak link in the quest for security. In other words, if one is actively engaged in taking measures for security, one is not guaranteed security because there is no assurance of total compliance. Conversely, if a method of passive protection is introduced, removing the need for individual interaction, this will allow us to be free from care and security is achieved. It is the method of implementation that is key - security is dependent on the dynamics of passive protection.
| Publisher | Command Software Systems | File Format | HTML & PDF |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 4 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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