The Wicked Nature of Information Security
Andrew J. Stewart · Cornell University Press eBooks · 2021
This chapter studies the wicked nature of information security. It has always been unlikely that there will be a breakthrough in any one specific area of information security that will solve the problems that exist across the entirety of the field. An alternative approach has been to step outside the field of information security and examine information security problems from the perspective of other fields. The security of every computer system depends on a myriad of factors, including the technologies that are employed, the incentives of the users, and the environment in which those technologies and users reside. This means that there is a limit to how much each discipline within the field of information security can contribute to improving the security of any system, whether it be software security, network security, user education, passwords, or cryptography.