Dark Reading: How A Little Obscurity Can Bolster Security

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Most security professionals deride the idea of "security by obscurity." Is it time to re-evaluate the conventional wisdom?

4/17/2014
by Corey Nachreiner

One of the first maxims I remember learning when I began my formal information security (InfoSec) training was, "Security by obscurity is no security at all." If you haven't heard this saying before, security by obscurity refers to relying on an aspect of secrecy to protect your systems, rather than on truly secure design. Most security professionals utter the phrase with derision.

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