Natural defenses: 8 IT security tactics found in nature

If you’re an IT security professional, you probably don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about bugs, plants or fungus, at least not during your work day. However, researchers from the Warsaw Institute of Technology think that you should. In a recently published paper, “Security – a perpetual war: lessons from nature,” they draw analogies in nature to approaches taken by hackers and those defending against them in the digital world. The methods used in both offensive attacks (e.g., DDoS, spam) and defensive responses (e.g., firewalls, honeypots), they argue, can be seen in the plant and animal world.

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