It was, in its time, a soothing miracle cure or a humiliating school day when I smelled like an over mentholated pine forest. But it’s also an example of a domino falling, which can lead to surprising places, both good and bad. There are domino effect examples throughout the security field, too.
About the Vick’s Vaporub: It started in 1905, when North Carolina druggist Lunsford Richardson developed an ointment to treat head and chest colds. The product, just like some security budgets, got its greatest boost with a reaction to a disaster, the 1918 worldwide influenza outbreak.