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by AnthonyMouse 1879 days ago
It operates based on the same principle. There is a list of known-malicious software and you reject that software. If the bad software is known, they can both reject it. If it isn't known, neither of them would.

Defense in depth requires one of the measures to catch things the other one wouldn't.

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People seem to be having trouble with this, so let's go to the ogre analogy.

Defense in depth is layered, like an onion.

Combining automatic certification with fingerprinting is layered, like a cake. It's not the same thing.