TechRepublic - IT Security: Knowing the superficial side of security is important, too

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Maybe you're a sole proprietor or a home computer user, answerable to nobody but yourself for security policy. If you have to answer to others, though, you need to know more than good security practice; you also need to know the good, bad, and ugly of industry best practices.

June 27th, 2008
By Chad Perrin

Those of you who have been reading the IT Security Weblog since I started writing for it in July 2007 probably find my emphasis on learning principles over techniques, as a means of ensuring quality and depth of ongoing security practice, quite familiar by now. The overall message is, in many ways, that techniques are ephemeral and you should be able to construct good practice from a solid understanding of principles; understanding principles is more important than memorizing “industry best practices.”

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