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Editorial: Fence Itself Grazing the Field—Security from the Sentries

Editorial: Fence Itself Grazing the Field—Security from the Sentries 41e Editorial: Fence Itself Grazing the Field--Security from the Sentries I have been interacting with a number of agencies in charge of implementing very large systems for the past couple of months. A legal case came to us for our assessment of security vulnerabilities of a computerized competitive examination service. I even interacted with a few companies in the cyber-physical critical infrastructure space. I realized that most people I met are not only nonexperts in cyber security, they actually lack an understanding of the essence of cyber security of such critical systems. In my native language Bengali, there is a proverb "sorsher modhye bhoot" whose English language equivalent is "Fence itself grazing the field." For those unaware of this proverb--it means that while the purpose of fencing your garden is to protect your plants from grazing stray animals--what if the fence itself is grazing your garden. The Bengali proverb captures it slightly better--although in a bit of a culturally contextsensitive way. In a recent survey published by PwC [PwC: Global State of Information Security Survey], the employers surveyed reported astonishing figures: 33.56% of security incident sources were current employees, 28.6% were former employees, 21.93% are current contractors and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) Association for Computing Machinery

Editorial: Fence Itself Grazing the Field—Security from the Sentries

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
1539-9087
DOI
10.1145/2953045
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Abstract

41e Editorial: Fence Itself Grazing the Field--Security from the Sentries I have been interacting with a number of agencies in charge of implementing very large systems for the past couple of months. A legal case came to us for our assessment of security vulnerabilities of a computerized competitive examination service. I even interacted with a few companies in the cyber-physical critical infrastructure space. I realized that most people I met are not only nonexperts in cyber security, they actually lack an understanding of the essence of cyber security of such critical systems. In my native language Bengali, there is a proverb "sorsher modhye bhoot" whose English language equivalent is "Fence itself grazing the field." For those unaware of this proverb--it means that while the purpose of fencing your garden is to protect your plants from grazing stray animals--what if the fence itself is grazing your garden. The Bengali proverb captures it slightly better--although in a bit of a culturally contextsensitive way. In a recent survey published by PwC [PwC: Global State of Information Security Survey], the employers surveyed reported astonishing figures: 33.56% of security incident sources were current employees, 28.6% were former employees, 21.93% are current contractors and

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jul 21, 2016

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