Understanding Relational Security
Information security involves numerous chains and relationships. It is rare to have a security situation handed to us in a nice little box, isolated from the rest of the world. Any given object will almost always have a series of relationships with other networks, applications, events, etc., which will prove to be of great significance to our security considerations. The security of any object is dependent on the security of its related objects, and if we fail to see these relationships, we will be unable to properly address security. I call this relational security.
A server, for example, may be considered safe because it is not connected to the Internet. It is, however, accessible by the administrator's home ...
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