Improving security and reliability

This last section is about your goal in studying hackers and their behavior and the improvement of security and reliability. Security doesn’t work when it’s too hard or too time-consuming to implement. Systems that are complex are usually unreliable. To actually improve the environment at an organization, it’s essential to limit the difficulty, complexity, and time-consuming nature of the solution. If you were to implement every idea in this book, you’d do nothing but spend your days managing the security of your system. The idea is to use the hacker information in this chapter to tailor a solution that meets your organization’s needs.

Behavior monitoring is the key to ending the constant struggle to build the walls of your organization’s security infrastructure higher, only to see hackers cresting over the top. Building higher walls is proven not to work well, at least, not for very long, so you need a...