Speaking of Security Jul 30, 2019

When speaking with IT-security professionals, we often encounter very different interpretations of the term "security".

During such conversations, we found that our intuitive notion of IT security as resilience - and in particular the examination of attack surfaces - is rather uncommon. This prompted us to put our use of the term into a broader perspective:

https://genodians.org/nfeske/2019-07-11-security

The article tries to systematize various disciplines in the field of IT security, ranging from cryptography, network security, operational security, posthumous security, over reactive security and attack mitigations, to resilience.