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security theater: a standalone construct

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Information security

security measures that make people feel safer without materially reducing risk, used as an analytic contrast with measures judged by their actual effect.

In information security, security theater refers to security measures that make people feel safer without materially reducing risk, used as an analytic contrast with measures judged by their actual effect. This meaning comes from Schneier (2003) in Beyond fear: thinking sensibly about security in an uncertain world.[1]

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Schneier, B. (2003). Beyond fear: thinking sensibly about security in an uncertain world. Springer. ISBN 9780387026206

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