I increasingly feel that "security", as the name of a type of emergent property of whole systems, is poorly specified and should be retired.
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How about using an oversimplified 1-dimensional definition: degree of security = market price for unauthorized access.
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Actively less useful, because it collapses all outcomes into access and all difficulties into price.
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This misconception is a big part of why the industry is as bad at what it does as it is.
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So "system" here means more than just computer/network system. Any ideas on how to define it better, or replace concept?
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Ah, yes. System means the in-scope human process and the set of tools used to implement it, some of which may be computers.
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Computer systems are only interesting because they do things humans want, or as abstract toys.
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