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Security chaos engineering helps you find weak links in your cyber defenses before attackers do
2021-02-01 11:48

Chaos engineering is a way for security teams to replace continuous firefighting with continuous learning, according to two industry experts.

At the RSA 365 Virtual Summit this week, Aaron Rinehart, CTO and co-founder Verica, and Jamie Dicken, manager of applied security at Cardinal Health, explained how this approach to IT security works.

During the presentation, Navigating the Unknowable: Resilience through Security Chaos Engineering, Dicken said one reason security teams are constantly running from one security incident to the next is the traditional design-oriented mindset.

Dicken used advice from management expert Dave Snowden to explain why security chaos engineering works: The only way to understand a complex system is to interact with it.

In December, O'Reilly published a report about security chaos engineering by Rinehart and Kelly Shortridge.

Her long-term goal is to use the security chaos experimentation to move to test-driven development.


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