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News | July 31, 2018

Digital Network Resilience: Surprising Lessons from the Maginot Line

By Ray A. Rothrock

For most of us today, the phrase “Maginot Line” is a stale but cruel joke, if not just some vague memory from a high school history class. It is well-worn metaphoric shorthand for any defensive measure firmly believed to provide excellent protection, but that is in fact quite useless. Actually, worse than useless—because building a Maginot Line creates the complacency of a false sense of security.

 

Digital Network Resilience: Surprising Lessons from the Maginot Line