This was originally posted on the SensePost blog.

Over the last few years there has been a popular meme talking about information centric security as a new paradigm over vulnerability centric security. I've long struggled with the idea of information-centricity being successful, and in replying to a post by Rob Bainbridge, quickly jotted some of those problems down.

In pre-summary, I'm still sceptical of information-classification approaches (or information-led control implementations)  as I feel they target a theoretically sensible idea, but not a practically sensible one.