The Principle of Abstraction

Reduction of a topic to the essential bits

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I’ve written about the principle of abstraction in a few of my blog posts. Recently, I came across a different use of the term abstraction in relation to cybersecurity. That led me to today’s blog post below, where I clarify the term for use in software development and with cloud security policies.

Read the full post here.

Abstraction in Cybersecurity

Other stories I’ve written that include the concept of abstraction:

Abstraction and MITRE ATT&CK

Configuration and Abstraction

DRY — Don’t Repeat Yourself

Every Line of Code is a Potential Bug

Secure Code By Design

Creating Shared Repositories and Code in an Organization

Understanding the Risk Associated with Open-Source Code

Securing Secrets Used By Your Code

Refactoring to reduce open source code risk

Thoughtful Error Handling

Refactoring Existing Code to Use IAM Naming Conventions: Part 1

Why Data Types Matter

Create an IAM role for a Batch Job

Data Integrity

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Teri Radichel | © 2nd Sight Lab 2023

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