No one should beat your security team on the homefield! For several years I have been using the term Homefield Advantage in the context of running a security program, especially in regards to certain aspects of red teaming. Homefield Advantage describes well what a mature security program has to realize and leverage.
Wikipedia describes “home advantage” in team sports and highlights some of the benefits:
“This benefit has been attributed to psychological effects supporting fans have on the competitors or referees; to psychological or physiological advantages of playing near home in familiar situations; to the disadvantages away teams suffer from changing time zones or climates, or from the rigors of travel; and, in some sports, to specific rules that favor the home team directly or indirectly.
Today I finalized moving the blog and publishing to Hugo. It was pretty straight forward and I decided to move things into a master branch on github, and publish via the docs/ folder features of Github pages.
For every digital transformation enabled by apps, the application itself is a primary target, along with the business logic it supports and all its underlying data. F5 Labs' Preston Hogue writes for SecurityWeek, discussing how we can keep up with digital complexity in an app-enabled world.
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