Enhancing existing capabilities

Enhancing security measures means not building the wall higher, but rather making the existing wall more effective and efficient. For the hacker, this means that existing strategies continue to work, but with a lower probability of success. It becomes a matter of not creating a new strategy, but of making the existing strategy work better when it comes to overcoming security solutions. This change in direction can be difficult for the hacker to overcome because it means working through a particular security strategy and any new methodologies learned may not work everywhere. In short, it means a return to some level of manual hacking in many cases because automation is no longer effective.

The following sections provide an overview of strategies for augmenting existing security strategies presented in previous chapters in a manner that doesn’t build a higher wall. The goal is to slow the hacker down, create distractions, make automation less...