A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age by Andrew Stewart (review).

I A Vulnerable System i challenges this obsession, showing that many of the vulnerabilities that concern security practitioners today have a much longer history. Stewart also states that the crash would "shift the focus from short-termism back to fundamentals" (p. 77), thereby pivoting to the next c...

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Published in:	Technology & Culture Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 232 - 235
Main Author:	Slayton, Rebecca
Format:	Article
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Jan2023
Subjects:	Cyberterrorism Computer security Information technology security Information storage & retrieval systems Computer software security History of computers
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	I A Vulnerable System i challenges this obsession, showing that many of the vulnerabilities that concern security practitioners today have a much longer history. Stewart also states that the crash would "shift the focus from short-termism back to fundamentals" (p. 77), thereby pivoting to the next chapter's discussion of Microsoft's security program. Chapter 4 discusses internet vulnerabilities and products that emerged during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s and highlights a "lucrative feedback loop", wherein hackers exposed vulnerabilities and then were paid to help fix those vulnerabilities.