TECH REPORT
The Growing Need to
Protect
YOUR CODE and Your Organization
It is common for burrowing animals—moles, gophers, etc.—to build a second, secret tunnel to escape predators. We humans behave similarly, building secondary portals not only as a means of escape, but as an entryway into our constructs, taking the form of a door to the back porch or a backdoor embedded in code creating a point of access that could circumvent existing access controls.
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