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  • What is Adaptive Security?

    What is Adaptive Security?

    72 days after the fact AdultFriendFinder.com, a “very mature” dating site, realized they had been hacked. The VERY personal information of 3 million registrants has been held hostage. By now, it should be clear that in the modern software development world, old-style static security just won’t work. Of course, there are times when the static security model still applies  —  for example, on a relatively stable, hardware-based system with traditional, non-continuous deployment and a limited traffic volume. Such environments can easily be routed through a checkpoint with no significant loss in performance.

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