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posted by on Wednesday February 15 2017, @10:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the because-they're-more-determined dept.

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: 2) by WillR on Wednesday February 15 2017, @03:39PM

    by WillR (2012) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @03:39PM (#467413)
    It's more general than just hackers vs government. There are certain types of people ("techies") who observe how a system works and then use it the way it really works, ignoring parts of the documentation that don't match what's really happening, and other people ("bean counters") for whom the documentation is the authority, and if the documentation says the system does X, Y, and Z and complies with the applicable laws and best practices, then it does.
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