Chapter 3: Designing Secure Information Systems
In the previous chapter, we talked about how to protect assets with controls that have been applied based on risk, but there is so much more that can be done. What more can be done?, you ask, bursting from sheer excitement. Well…, I reply, and softly smile to myself: What if we just designed the systems with security in mind from the beginning? Your face lights up, and the stars create tracers as the world whirls around us.
No—but seriously, we should be designing our systems with security in mind from the beginning. That's what this chapter is about. By the way, I don't mean design the same way a man (who is still standing on a Segway scooter inside the elevator of your building with you) says that he designed it himself, his sunglasses still on even though you're indoors, thinking he's extremely cool. Yes, it's happened to me. I mean it in a way where we plan and threat-model the implementation...