Blueprint for a Science of Cybersecurity
Fred B. Schneider · eCommons (Cornell University) · 2011
A secure system must defend against all possible attacks--including those unknown to the defender. But defenders, having limited resources, typically develop defenses only for attacks they know about. New kinds of attacks are then likely to succeed. So our growing dependence on networked computing systems puts at risk individuals, commercial enterprises, the public sector, and our military.