Security News > 2020 > April > Information security goes non-binary

Finding security holes in information systems is as old as the first commercially available computer.

From the first security bugs until the recent past, security was a game with a clear winner and loser.

Our job as information security experts and presumed good guys was to find those security vulnerabilities and help fix them.

First the speed at which security holes were discovered rapidly increased: while some 1,000 security holes were discovered and made public in the year 2000; in 2018 that number was over 16,000.

The development of information security testing and protection systems helps us cope with security breaches: multiple layers of security, the ability to alert, log and block attacks means that the attacking and defending sides both have costs associated to with both attacking and defending: instead of a chess game with a winning and losing side, this is more like a perpetual tug-of-war where as long as a constant effort is applied by both sides it's quite possible no one will score a definite win.

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