Security News > 2017 > April > Attack vs. Defense in Nation-State Cyber Operations (Schneier on Security)
2017-04-13 10:45
I regularly say that, on the Internet, attack is easier than defense. There are a bunch of reasons for this, but primarily it's 1) the complexity of modern networked computer systems and 2) the attacker's ability to choose the time and method of the attack versus the defender's necessity to secure against every type of attack. This is true, but...
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