The starting point for a new study from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology is not new: "There are only two types of networks, those that have been compromised and those that are compromised without the operator's awareness." Since it is impossible to defend the network, the solution is surely to defend the data. Here encryption can offer something more like a guarantee of security.
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