Security of a System is the Sum of all its Parts

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I’ve written about this before (as it pertains a lot to cloud offerings) but we often look at the security of a system in terms of the security of each of its individual components. As a recent cyberattack on a DoD contractor provided, that is not always the case:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/14/220220/DoD-Lost-24k-Files-In-Attack-On-Contractor

When we start looking at overall system integrity, we must take into account both the components of the system themselves as wel...