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With all the

breaches in the news as of late there’s been a lot of chatter about the

shifting threat landscape. I saw a post on social earlier in the week that got

me thinking; if the threat landscape is shifting - why is it that and how does

the collective industry slow things down so we can catch our breach and be

proactive with security.  The one piece

of security tech I rarely see folks using is deception technology, but maybe

the value of the tech is overlooked.

The idea

of evolution and Darwinism is pretty established at this point. Whether you be

believe in creation or evolution it doesn’t matter too much but what I want to

dial into is the concept of natural selection, if you aren’t familiar with term

it’s the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to

survive and produce more offspring.  

Charles Darwin’s idea of natural selection is generally created as an

evolutionist  theory BUT the point I want

to highlight is I think we can all agree is the common thread here whether

you’re a evolutionist of creationist is…mutation.   As we, collectively, evolve as species and

as all species we mutate we migrate and create a sense of genetic drift from

the original DNA strains.   But at the

most fundamental level genetic drift occurs from testing.   We test food, if it poisons us we die. We

test our living environments, if it makes us sick we have a lower chance of

procreation. If we’re dispositioned to reckless habits it could limit our

ability to pass on our genetics and or lessons to the next generation if we’re

dead.

Foundationally

speaking this is a very long term testing effort as a species but, what happens

if we couldn’t test.  What happens if the

test results were random.  I mean truly random.   What is something was gaming us all like

something out of the Hunger Games?  Two

people with the same genetic make up, eat the same berries - one gets poisoned

and dies and the other doesn’t.  What

happens those same two people with the same genetic make up live in an

environment that makes one sick but not the other.  If this was the case, it would be incredibly

hard to “test” and evolve.  Now, what

happens if that same idea applied to castle defenses?

The idea

of attacking castles is well documented over time and there’s a long history or

action and reaction. An attacker storms the front gate and gets in, the

defenders react and build a moat if they have a next time.  The defenders build the walls higher, the

attackers build a siege tower to easily get soldiers over the walls.   The defenders build defense in depth and

attackers create the Trojan horse.  But

what would happen if attack results were truly random, sometimes you go through

the front gate…sometimes you didn’t. 

Sometimes the moat was a problem, sometimes it wasn’t.