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Society is operating under the illusion that governments and corporations are taking rational choices about computer security, but the fact of the matter is that we're drowning under a sea of false positive, bad management, and a false belief in the power of technology to save us.
"The government is very reactive," said Jason Truppi, director of endpoint detection and response at security firm Tanium and a former FBI investigator. "Over time we've learned it wasn't working - just being reactive, not proactive."
Truppi said we need to puncture the belief that government and industry are working together to solve online threats. In reality, he says, the commercial sector and government are working to very different agendas and the result is a hopeless mishmash of confusing loyalties.
On threat intelligence sharing, for example, the government encourages business to share news of vulnerabilities. But the subsequent investigations can be wide-ranging and lead to business' people being charged for unrelated matters. A result companies are increasingly unwilling to share data if it exposes them to wider risks.
The fact of the matter is that companies don't get their own infosec problems and don't care that much. Truppi, who has now moved to the commercial sector, said that companies are still trying to hire good network security people, but bog them down in useless false alerts and management panics.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by art guerrilla on Wednesday February 15 2017, @12:17PM
meant to say in the wrap up, that is PRECISELY why we have what is called 'structural unemployment' baked into the system (minimum of 5%), so that we do not EVER have full employment such that it gives the workers bargaining power... BESIDES the bullshit unemployment figures which are TOTALLY gamed, the fact is the economy will NEVER have 'full employment' as long as the masters of the universe run things, because that takes away their power to control the workers...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 15 2017, @12:31PM
I have been waiting my entire career for all of us to finally apply that remedy on the t-shirt to the PHB's and politicians: "Go away, or I will replace you with a very small shellscript."
I can tell you we could safely replace every single human in the banking sector alone with such and no one would ever miss them. In fact, everything would work so much better. For every other sector it would be much the same, and if we find ourselves subsequently feeling nostalgic we can program a robotic arm to throw chairs and randomly blurt pithy phrases like "value drivers!" and "leverage our capacity!"
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Wednesday February 15 2017, @02:27PM
A growing percentage of people are simply unemployable. As automation improves and spreads the capability bar rises.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek