Probably, the most disappointing thing about the study of security is that, in some aspects at least, it has progressed remarkably little since the first volume of the journal in 1989. It is still neither common for security companies to employ researchers nor for the security sector to sponsor quality-independent research and publish the findings. You could be forgiven for believing that, all too often those involved in the practice of security have seen research as an irrelevance. I do not criticize them for that (not too much anyway), after all much of the research that has been done has not been objective, the topics covered have often been viewed as marginal to mainstream interests, and the way that the research has been presented has often not taken account of the needs of security practitioners. Within Universities, the study of security has been mostly a marginal interest, and even then good courses have been more common than good research. Indeed, there are a few handfuls of dedicated security scholars around the world who have been responsible for much of the scholarly output.
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