Red Team Blues Quotes

“I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields.”
― Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues

“That’s the problem with blue teaming it—you need to be perfect, while—” “The red team only has to find a single error,”
― Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues

“Complexity is the enemy of security, after all. The more moving parts and seams a system has, the more places there are for an attacker to find purchase and slip inside. Team blue is team minimalism, the Marie Kondo of security. If a procedure does not fill you with joy, remove it and replace it with a simpler one. An ideal security system was a box with only one door with one lock with one key and only one person knows about it.”
― Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues

“You make it sound like you’re in mourning. Marty, you’re rich, retired, good-looking, and you’ve got all your teeth and all your joints. There’s damned few people who can say the same.”
― Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues

“Rearden Factoring. They’re financial engineers, leveraging supply-chain desperation”
― Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues