Cybersecurity Survivorship Bias and How to Avoid it
The concept of survivorship bias can be best illustrated by a short history lesson from World War II. One of the biggest problems the Royal Air Force and United States Air Force faced was how to prevent their aircraft from being shot down. Fixing armour made the aircraft heavier with reduced range, so a solution was only armoring the most essential areas. Mathematicians and scientists identified that the majority of bullet holes were in the fuselage and very few were in the engines, which is why they initially chose to armour the fuselage.