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The science-driven security

By Milica Djekic

Have you ever thought how our nature could be correlated with a defense? Or, is it possible to a
security to avoid the laws of a nature? If you believe all of these could work together somehow,
you are on a good track to get a concept of a “science-driven security”.

Right here, we would introduce this very new paradigm and hopefully open up some
discussions in the coming issues of this magazine.

Today many people would deal with a security as something that could be explained like a
balance between three main parameters which are a prevention, monitoring and incidence
response.

This idea appears as quite original and convenient, but what we want to do here is to go deeper
into this so fascinating field.

So, let us say – it’s about the balance! But, what does that mean? How could we correlate it to
our nature, to any natural phenomenon or simply to any law of the physics? First of all, we
would like to see what the science says about such a, so called, equilibrium stuff. This got
illustrated in a Figure 1.

Figure 1. Source: The equilibrium types

As it’s presented through the previous picture, in a nature there are three main equilibrium types
– (a) stable, (b) unstable and (c) neutral. The parameters should be in equilibrium or balance if
you want your state not any longer exposed to a moving force. In terms of a security, a moving
force could be assumed as a theat.

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