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Expand Up @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ The term is borrowed from the 'machine learning flywheel':
In a security context, vendor defensive tooling has long-term access to all the attack (and benign!) telemetry of multiple customers. That's a lot of momentum being stored in that flywheel, leading to more opportunities for detection. Their flywheel creates a complex decision function encompassing static, dynamic, signature and ML checks across a range of security verticals.

![Objects with mass distributed farther from the rotational axis have a higher moment of inertia. The moment of inertia is directly proportional to the object's resistance to changes in its rotational motion or angular momentum](/assets/img/post11/flywheel.gif){: .mx-auto.d-block :} Objects with mass distributed farther from the rotational axis have a higher moment of inertia. The moment of inertia is directly proportional to the object's resistance to changes in its rotational motion or angular momentum
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A bigger flywheel with more momentum has its disadvantages though; it cannot change its rotational axis quickly, and that can be used to our advantage, allowing attackers to navigate a complex topography much faster.

Furthermore, changing complex systems has downstream consequences which are often hard to measure or further increase cost.
Furthermore, changing complex systems has downstream consequences which are often hard to measure or further increase cost.

The story of attack & defense asymmetry lives on.
The story of attack | defense asymmetry lives on.

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