Summary

This chapter is about taking the hacker-eye view of security, which is extremely porous and profoundly easy to break. The idea is to help security professionals to remain informed that being comfortable and taking half-measures won’t keep a hacker at bay. Building the walls higher isn’t particularly effective either. Years of one-upmanship have demonstrated that building higher walls simply means that the hacker must devise a new strategy, which often comes even before the walls are built. Creating an effective defense requires that the security professional deal with the hacker from the perspective that the hacker thinks it’s possible to overcome any obstacle. This is where ML comes into play because using ML techniques makes it possible to look for hacker patterns that a security professional can exploit to enhance security without building a higher wall. It’s time that the hacker becomes more comfortable with an existing strategy and lowers their...