What’s Your Fail-Safe Posture? Before You Learn How to Fly, Learn How to Fall

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Way back in 1975, two members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) authored a report about how to protect computer systems. One of the recommendations in the report by Saltzer and Schroeder, “The Protection of Information in Computer Systems”, was to include “Fail-safe defaults”. If you work in any area of information security, it is time to consider what failing safely is all about. If you are a candidate who is studying for the CISSP exam, understanding the difference between failing safe, and failing secure, has even broader applications in at least two study domains. In any…

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