Originally, the first internetworks did, in fact, emerge largely from chaos. Like any modern construction, it first has to be meticulously designed, and network security architects are an important part of these design teams.
This alignment of speed and safety doesn’t simply emerge from chaos, however.
The network is a tool and a toy, one that exposes vast power yet remains relatively easy to use, driving the engines of commerce and entertainment in the modern world. Users log in to networked systems every day for work and play, romping through corporate networks and across the Internet freely, slotting in a username and password from time to time but otherwise with very little consideration for the complex array of hardware, software, and logic that enables their activities.
