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Overconfident security execs may be putting their organisations at greater risk, according to new research.
A report by services firm Accenture has revealed that of the 2,000 enterprise security practitioners – representing companies with annual revenues of more than $1bn – three in four were confident in their ability to stop all crooks getting into their systems.
Titled Building Confidence: Facing the Cybersecurity Conundrum (PDF), the report revealed that more than half of security executives admit it can take months to detect sophisticated breaches, and a third of those successful breaches are never discovered at all.
[...] The French spend 9.4 per cent of their total IT budget on security, ahead of the 8.2 per cent global average, while the Australians tend to scrimp by with a mere 7.6 per cent on security, pipped by the Americans at 8 per cent – though ironically it is French, American and Australian companies who are the least confident in their ability to monitor for a breach.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/02/survey_finds_75_of_security_execs_believe_they_are_invicible/
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 03 2016, @05:49AM
Cowboys will tell you, "There ain't a horse that can't be rode, and there ain't a cowboy that can't be throwed."
Military, especially those with advanced combat training, know that they can all have their asses kicked, often times by a little bitty person who isn't very intimidating.
That concept of invincibility is crushed in a lot people's workaday lives. These execs live insular lives, and they don't learn life's harsher lessons. The term "exec" is nearly synonymous with "overly protected" these days. Executives need to start off in some kind of executive boot camp, where hackers with martial arts belts can hand them their asses regularly for a few months.
Dang, I really like that idea. A squad of four wannabe future execs are tasked with defending a network. If the hacker gets in, he literally kicks all their asses all around the server room.
Or, we could just ask Chthulhu to start training these little pussies. That could be better than a real life Bruce Lee stomping all over them. Billboards in every city - "So you want to be a security exec? Get the best training from Chthulhu's Security Academy!" Or, "Chthulhu is looking for a few good execs"?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 03 2016, @10:04AM
"Literally," as in, "Physically strike and damage them?" Hell, I'm in. Can we dispense with the hacking, though, and get straight to the main event?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 03 2016, @10:17AM
LOL - you sound like a violent person. And, that coming from ME? ROFLMAO
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 03 2016, @02:06PM
"Pissed off person" is more apt. Harsh language, reason, voting, lawsuits, the media, changing buying patterns, etc. have all gotten us nowhere. Eventually the only thing the corrupt & powerful understand is a beating.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday November 03 2016, @09:46PM
I believe this quote from Se7en gets the point across quite well:
John Doe: Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 03 2016, @04:38PM
Devilbird there is correct: sometimes violence *is* the answer. While two wrongs don't make a right, they may very well prevent a third wrong. This is something I've known since age 8 or so.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 03 2016, @07:34PM
That's almost like singing to the choir, Azuma. I'm ex military, after all. A lot of people say that violence doesn't solve anything - and they are dead wrong. Violence has solved a lot of problems. Violence often causes more problems, but it does indeed solve problems one way or the other. I won't Godwin this conversation with an obvious example.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday November 03 2016, @09:44PM
Toss in knives or bats and I'm down.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 04 2016, @12:31PM
I'm partial to axe handles, but I reckon it's generally gonna be BYOW (Bring Your Own Weapon) so anything goes.
Washington DC delenda est.