Thinking Beyond the Ivory Towers

Thinking Beyond the Ivory Towers
Dave Aitel, 2008-05-15

In the information-security industry, there are clear and vast gaps in the way academia interacts with professional researchers. While these gaps will be filled in due time, their existence means that security professionals outside the hallowed halls of colleges and universities need to be aware of the differences in how researchers and professionals think.

Thinking Beyond the Ivory Towers 2008-05-27
Anonymous

I think the communication gap may be even greater than you imply, since I think you misunderstand (at least part of) their paper when you say:

"[Attackers] don't repeatedly launch attacks and hope that luck is on their side. You rarely get the chance to run your exploit twice these days."

If t...

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