The Self-Defeating Network (SdN) strives to be unmanned (i.e., to reduce headcount to zero), because products, not processes and people, are perceived as the “solution” The SdN is uncontrolled, which means anything goes — including suspicious and malicious traffic. The enterprise is actually less capable of providing resources than one which is controlled. An absence of network traffic does not preclude physical problems like stealing data via USB token. The absence of logs does not indicate an absence of problems.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/01/self-defeating-network.html