Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions

The Virtue of Higher Focus

One major problem with how information security is handled today is that organizations are too focused on specific details. We apply a specific patch to deal with a specific problem and then wait a week for the next version of the same problem to hit again. In the world of information security, there are thousands of vulnerabilities exploitable by tens of thousands of attacks with virtually millions of possible permutations. Placing too much focus on the exact details of a specific vulnerability, a specific attack, or an isolated security issue will only serve to distract us from taking the proper actions and developing ...