Analogue Network Security
Time, Broken Stuff, Engineering, Systems, My Audio Career, and Other Musings on Six Decades of Thinking About it All
This groundbreaking work challenges conventional cybersecurity thinking by fusing analog and digital security concepts. It provides a fresh perspective on how to address security challenges in an ever-evolving digital landscape, earning its place as a notable and influential text in the field of cybersecurity.
The central premise of Analogue Network Security revolves around the idea that security in the digital realm could benefit from principles and techniques borrowed from the analog world. In essence, Schwartau proposes a hybrid approach to security that combines the best of both worlds.
One of the key features of the book is its introduction of a mathematical, time-based, and probabilistic approach to security. This approach aimed to provide a more comprehensive and adaptable framework for securing digital systems. By integrating analog thinking and methods, Winn Schwartau sought to create a more robust and versatile security strategy.
“What if security can be quantified? What if security can be measured? What if security vendors can be measurably compared? We can stop most phishing, spam, data exfiltration, DoS/DDoS, fake news and more. Can security be mathematically justified? What if we’ve just been looking at security in the wrong way? …
Analogue Network Security is a completely new, provable suite of techniques to design cyber, human and physical systems with more security than you ever thought possible.
Security requires a single, interdisciplinary metric for the cyber, physical, and human domains. Digital is not binary. Infinity is our enemy.“
— Winn Schwartau, Analogue Network Security
