I’m getting cynical with age
on December 19th, 2006 at 12:25 pmI was reading through my many newsletters I receive daily, and I ran across a couple of articles about security vendors warning about spam, spyware, phishing, the mob and hackers teaming up, etc. As I was reading those headlines, I found myself quickly sneering and thinking these were nothing but more FUD from people trying to make another buck.
Then I thought, Wow, I sure am getting cynical. Though it is obvious that there can be a lot of FUD coming from these guys, that doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t read their stuff. I’m sure there are people in those companies that are sincerely trying to help the security industry. It just comes out as FUD when those dang “marketeers” get their claws into it.
Maybe I’m a little gloomy because it has been raining down here for the last couple of days. I need to take a happy pill!
Vet
“data leakage”? Whatever happened to “extrusion prevention”?
Maybe a better question is why do you view your own skepticism in such a poor light?
Skepticism, esp. about Security and FUD, is only good IMHO. I’ve been through the same thing – wondering if “data leakage” prevention devices were really a revolutionary new technology or just hype (after all, this data’s been flowing for years now, how many incidents can this investment really be stopping), if the investment for encryption at rest is really worth it, etc…
At the end of the day, it took really understanding risk reduction for me to get centered. I went from “protect everything with every dollar available” to “we haven’t been bit yet, chances are I’m not going to be the first to get hit, so I’ll just wait for the technology to mature”.