Chapter 2. Key Principles of Security
From the perspective of someone who is charged with assessing security, security principles and best practices provide value in their application as well as insight into how and where security might be weak. To use an analogy, who would better know how to destroy a bridge than the engineer who designed the mechanics that make it strong? By understanding what makes security strong, you can, by deduction, predict where security is most vulnerable. Cryptography is a good example. Have you ever seen a movie where the would-be thieves break into a computer system by cracking 128-bit 3DES? In reality, 3DES, when properly implemented, is quite strong; consequently, attempting to crack the algorithm would not likely ...
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