Happy New Year, Security Buffs
January 1, 2020
DarkCyber spotted a write up which revealed an unpleasant (not inconvenient) truth. Navigate to “Complexity Is the Biggest Enemy for Cybersecurity Practitioner.” The idea is that security problems exist due to complexity. Here’s a passage that intrigued us:
If you look at all the breaches, whether they’re on cloud or on premise, you will find that those organizations had the technology, but they didn’t have a synchronized policy. So there has been a gap in the policy deployment because they have been using different tools with different policy engines and configurations or many features haven’t been turned on because existence of many tools creates so much complexity, which is the biggest enemy for any cybersecurity practitioner.
Over time, humans make things more complicated. A simple solution is often neither desirable or possible. Thus, gaps exist, opportunities for mischief abound, and organizations remain vulnerable in ways not understood or anticipated.
What’s the fix?
The expert opining in the article has an answer: “An API based approach.”
Complex?
Yeah, that’s the challenge the cybersecurity industry faces. Its simple solutions are too complex for many potential customers.
Net net: Become a cyber security consultant. The tyro will be wrong, but so will the experts.
Stephen E Arnold, January 1, 2019
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