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As children we probably all often listened to the fable of the king who rode nakedly through the street thinking he wore a beautiful new coat created for him by his (rogue) tailor. Nobody wanted to tell him that he was naked, because they all feared him – until a small boy revealed the truth.
This paper asks whether the IT industry is not in the same position – Information Security wise totally naked - although everyone tells everyone else how secure our IT systems are.
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von Solms, B. (2009). Is the Information Security King Naked?. In: Boyd, C., González Nieto, J. (eds) Information Security and Privacy. ACISP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02620-1_1
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