Refactoring 1 - Full Link Library*

Wherein we rearrange fragments of existing pandemic knowledge.

Introduction: Depending on a person’s profession, field of study and life experience, her mental model of “attacker” and “security” formed while reading the extract below could diverge wildly from that of the next person over. This divergence can be revealed when, say, a mathematician actually bothers to ask a biologist if public health workers think in the “prevent-detect-respond” framework. Assuming everyone thinks *the way we think they’re thinking* … isn’t foolproof. So we ask.

Detection Works Where Prevention Fails

"The ideal of any security system is to prevent an attack. but prevention is the hardest aspect of security to implement, and often the most expensive. To be practical as well as effective, almost all modern security systems combine prevention with detection and response, forming a triad that operates as an integrated system to provide dynamic security, resilient failure, and defense in depth. Audits (retrospective detection) and prediction (prospective attempts at detec…