Paths to security

No path is "right". Many or all paths may be taken to reach your comfortable posture. Each is a distinct way of looking at cybersecurity:

Be mindful of your development along each path and try to keep them balanced, since too much inequality of strength can itself be a weakness.

• Most people still favour keeping their heads down, that is to say

security by obscurity.

• Others find sharing knowledge and intelligence is important. /Security

in communities/ (safety in numbers).

• Security by strength (walls and ciphers), is probably what most people

first think of as a security path.

• Security by guile (outwit the opponent), is appealing but difficult as there are always smarter opponents.
• Security by appeal (ask for protection), is the weakest yet most prevalent path. Hired muscle soon becomes a hostile protection racket.
• Security of mind (peaceful disposition) is the master's way and it is the most difficult path.