Security would be so much easier if our networks were not so complicated! It’s a tempting illusion that we can just take out our checklists of best and worst practices, compare each component to the rules, make sure each configuration knob is set correctly, then put our feet up until the next audit.
But it never quite works like that, because networks are complicated – indeed, try an image search for “complexity”, and mostly what you get back are pictures of networks! Networks are the epitome of complexity.
