There's similar opposition to the "best practices" term in a 2008 book, e.g., search inside at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_School_of_Informatio

There's similar opposition to the "best practices" term in a 2008 book, e.g., search inside at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_School_of_Information_Security/TWvC32p5M5YC https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_School_of_Infor... For example: "they are highly unlikely to match the specifics of any particular environment, and so they are inefficient by their very nature"